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Rheumatoid arthritis: identifying and characterising polymorphisms using rat models.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 Oct 2016
Yau Anthony C Y, Holmdahl Rikard
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory joint disorder characterised by erosive inflammation of the articular cartilage and by destruction of the synovial joints. It is regulated by both genetic and environmental factors, and, currently, there is no preventative treatment or cure for this disease. Genome-wide association studies have identified ∼100 new loci associated with rheumatoid arthritis, in...
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