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Association of HLA-DRB1 genotype with younger age onset and elder age onset rheumatoid arthritis in Japanese populations.
Medicine - 1 Nov 2019
Oka Shomi, Furukawa Hiroshi, Shimada Kota, Hashimoto Atsushi, Komiya Akiko, Tsunoda Shinichiro, Saisho Koichiro, Tsuchiya Naoyuki, Katayama Masao, Shinohara Satoshi, Matsui Toshihiro, Fukui Naoshi, Sano Hajime, Migita Kiyoshi, Tohma Shigeto
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by joint destructions and human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 is an important genetic risk factor for RA and influences the phenotype of RA. The clinical features of elder age onset RA (EORA) were known to be different from those of younger age onset RA (YORA). Previous studies reported the different association pattern of DRB1 alleles with...
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