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Influence of the HLA-DRB1 locus on susceptibility and severity in rheumatoid arthritis.
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians - 1 Nov 1996
Hall F C, Weeks D E, Camilleri J P, Williams L A, Amos N, Darke C, Gibson K, Pile K, Wordsworth B P, Jessop J D
Abstract excerpt
We examined HLA-DR genotype risk in 288 patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were carefully categorized for disease severity. Five hundred ethnically-matched bone-marrow donors were controls. A hierarchy of positive allelic associations was noted with DRB1*0401 (p < 10(-38), *0404,8 (p < 10(-43), *0405 (p < 10(-8), *10 (p < 10(-3) and *0101,2 (p < 10(-2), while DRB1*0403 was negatively associated (p = 0.02)....
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