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Interactions between amino acid-defined major histocompatibility complex class II variants and smoking in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) - 1 Oct 2015
Kim Kwangwoo, Jiang Xia, Cui Jing, Lu Bing, Costenbader Karen H, Sparks Jeffrey A, Bang So-Young, Lee Hye-Soon, Okada Yukinori, Raychaudhuri Soumya, Alfredsson Lars, Bae Sang-Cheol, Klareskog Lars, Karlson Elizabeth W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To define the interaction between cigarette smoking and HLA polymorphisms in seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in the context of a recently identified amino acid-based HLA model for RA susceptibility. METHODS: We imputed Immunochip data on HLA amino acids and classical alleles from 3 case-control studies (the Swedish Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis [EIRA] study [1,654 cases...
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