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[Contribution of non-HLA genes to juvenile idiopathic arthritis susceptibility].
Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii meditsinskikh nauk - 1 Jan 2014
Savost'anov K V, Alexeeva E I, Chistiakov D A
Abstract excerpt
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JAL4) is the most common chronic rheumatologic disease in children. JIA is a group of disorders that share the clinical manifestation of chronic joint inflammation. The Human Leukocyte Antigen region (HLA) seems to be a major susceptibility locus for JIA that is estimated to account for 17% of familial segregation of the disease. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), case-control...
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