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Associations of HLA-DRB and -DQB genes with two and five year outcome in rheumatoid arthritis.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Jan 1996
Eberhardt K, Fex E, Johnson U, Wollheim F A
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of genomic HLA typing during the first five years of established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: The HLA-DRB and -DQB alleles were determined by restriction length polymorphisms and polymerase chain reaction amplification with sequence specific primers in 99 Swedish patients with RA. Clinical features after two and five years disease duration were related to the...
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