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Role of genetics in infection-associated arthritis.
Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology - 1 Apr 2015
Benham Helen, Robinson Philip C, Baillet Athan C, Rehaume Linda M, Thomas Ranjeny
Abstract excerpt
Genetic discoveries in arthritis and their associated biological pathways spanning the innate and adaptive immune system demonstrate the strong association between susceptibility to arthritis and control of exogenous organisms. The canonical theory of the aetiology of immune-mediated arthritis and other immune-mediated diseases is that the introduction of exogenous antigenic stimuli to a genetically susceptible...
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