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Familial aggregation of arthritis-related diseases in seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis: a register-based case-control study in Sweden.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Jan 2016
Frisell Thomas, Hellgren Karin, Alfredsson Lars, Raychaudhuri Soumya, Klareskog Lars, Askling Johan
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OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to estimate the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) associated with a family history of non-RA arthritis-related diseases. This familial co-aggregation is of clinical interest since it is often encountered when assessing family history of RA specifically, but also informative on the genetic overlap between these diseases. Since anticitrullinated peptide antibodies/rheumatoid...
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