Microchimeric cells promote production of rheumatoid arthritis-specific autoantibodies.

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BACKGROUND: Women are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases than men. Contribution from microchimerism (Mc) has been proposed, as women naturally acquire Mc from more sources than men because of pregnancy. Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) who lack RA-associated HLA alleles have been found to harbor Mc with RA-associated HLA alleles in higher amounts than healthy women in prior work. However, an...

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