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Investigation of the genetic overlap between rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis in a Greek population.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology - 1 May 2017
Myrthianou E, Zervou M I, Budu-Aggrey A, Eliopoulos E, Kardassis D, Boumpas D T, Kougkas N, Barton A, Sidiropoulos P, Goulielmos G N
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OBJECTIVES: Several rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility loci have also been found to be associated with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), demonstrating that there is a degree of genetic overlap between various autoimmune diseases. We sought to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) mapping to previously reported RA and/or PsA susceptibility loci, including PLCL2, CCL21, REL, STAT4, CD226,...
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