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Prediction of future rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America - 1 Nov 2014
Turk Samina A, van Beers-Tas Marian H, van Schaardenburg Dirkjan
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) results from an interaction between genetic susceptibility and environmental factors. Several of these factors are known, such as family history of RA, high birth weight, smoking, silica exposure, alcohol nonuse, obesity, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid factor, anti-citrullinated protein antibody, and genetic variants such as the shared epitope and protein tyrosine phosphatase nonreceptor...
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