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Polymorphism in the LMP2 gene influences the relative risk for acute anterior uveitis in unselected patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale - 1 Feb 1995
Maksymowych W P, Russell A S
Abstract excerpt
Although human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27 has been directly implicated in the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), additional evidence favours the involvement of an additional genetic factor(s). In a previous population analysis of AS patients selected for a history of acute anterior uveitis (AAU), we had demonstrated a phenotypic association between polymorphism in an HLA-linked proteasome subunit gene,...
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