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A variant in the osteoprotegerin gene is associated with coronary atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a candidate gene study.
International journal of molecular sciences - 11 Feb 2015
Chung Cecilia P, Solus Joseph F, Oeser Annette, Li Chun, Raggi Paolo, Smith Jeffrey R, Stein C Michael
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have accelerated atherosclerosis, but there is limited information about the genetic contribution to atherosclerosis in this population. Therefore, we examined the association between selected genetic polymorphisms and coronary atherosclerosis in patients with RA. METHODS: Genotypes for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 152 candidate genes linked with...
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