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Occurrence of autoimmune diseases and relationship of autoantibody expression with HLA phenotypes in multicase rheumatoid arthritis families.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 1993
Taneja V, Singh R R, Malaviya A N, Anand C, Mehra N K
Abstract excerpt
Presence of autoimmune diseases and relationship of autoantibody expression with HLA association has been studied in 44 multicase rheumatoid arthritis (RA) families of Asian Indian origin. An increased prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was observed in relatives (2.3%). Although HLA-DR4 segregated preferentially with seropositivity in general, no difference was observed among seropositive versus...
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