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The relationship between HLA-DRB1 alleles and disease subsets of rheumatoid arthritis in Japanese.
British journal of rheumatology - 1 Jun 1997
Wakitani S, Murata N, Toda Y, Ogawa R, Kaneshige T, Nishimura Y, Ochi T
Abstract excerpt
To assess the association between HLA-DRB1 and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the Japanese population, we typed for HLA-DRB1 alleles in 852 Japanese patients. An analysis of HLA-DRB1 allele associations was performed on the overall group and in three disease subsets of adult-onset RA, classified according to the extent of joint destruction evident on plain radiograms, i.e. least erosive subset...
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