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HLA markers in a community-based rheumatoid arthritis series.
Annals of medicine - 1 Aug 1997
Hakala M, Silvennoinen-Kassinen S, Ikäheimo I, Isosomppi J, Tiilikainen A
Abstract excerpt
We wanted to investigate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, defined by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1987 criteria and selected from one community by the help of the official Finnish data registers, share the common HLA susceptibility genes. The HLA frequencies of 88 RA patients representing 85% of the prevalent cases of RA in the community were compared with those of 188 healthy controls....
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