Article
Progress in the immunogenetics of rheumatoid arthritis.
Hospital practice (Office ed.) - 15 Apr 1995
Wordsworth P
Abstract excerpt
Although much remains to be learned about environmental factors and putative pathogens, significant strides have been made on the genetic front. Genes appear to have a greater role in determining disease severity than disease risk. In particular, patients who are heterozygous for two HLA-DR4 subt...
Topics
- Alleles
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Disease Susceptibility
- Environmental Health
- Female
- Genes, MHC Class II
- HLA-DR4 Antigen
- Haplotypes
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Male