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Association of valine and leucine at HLA-DRB1 position 11 with radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis, independent of the shared epitope alleles but not independent of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) - 1 Apr 2015
van Steenbergen H W, Raychaudhuri S, Rodríguez-Rodríguez L, Rantapää-Dahlqvist S, Berglin E, Toes R E M, Huizinga T W J, Fernández-Gutiérrez B, Gregersen P K, van der Helm-van Mil A H M
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OBJECTIVE: For decades it has been known that the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) alleles are associated with an increased risk of development and progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Recently, the following variations in the peptide-binding grooves of HLA molecules that predispose to RA develo...
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