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A Heritable Predisposition to Osteoarthritis of the Hip.
The Journal of arthroplasty - 1 Sept 2015
Pelt Christopher E, Erickson Jill A, Peters Christopher L, Anderson Mike B, Cannon-Albright Lisa
Abstract excerpt
Using THA as a proxy for underlying osteoarthritis, we describe population-based familial clustering of osteoarthritis of the hip. The GIF test for excess relatedness on 1049 patients that underwent THA (and do not have a diagnostic code for other conditions leading to THA) showed excess relatedness (P<0.001). Even when close relationships were ignored (closer than third-degree relationships), excess relatedness...
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