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Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphism and risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA): systematic review and meta-analysis.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Dec 2020
Bagheri-Hosseinabadi Zahra, Imani Danyal, Yousefi Hassan, Abbasifard Mitra
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D is involved in immune system modulation as well as in calcium and bone homeostasis, hence plays a role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) etiopathogenesis. A bulk of studies in different populations have assessed the association between the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms and the risk of RA, reporting conflicting results. Therefore, we designed a meta-analysis to comprehensively evaluate the...
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