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Increased prevalence of systemic sclerosis in a native american tribe in oklahoma. Association with an amerindian HLA haplotype
1 Aug 1996
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate a high prevalence of systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) in a well-defined population of 21,255 Choctaw Indians residing in 8 southeastern Oklahoma counties who were "users" of Indian Health Services. METHODS: A case-control study of 12 SSc cases and 48 matched non-SSc controls (4 per case) was conducted to investigate potential occupational, residential, and infectious exposures, as...
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