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Familial autoimmunity in pedigrees of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy patients suggests common genetic risk factors for many autoimmune diseases
1 Mar 1998
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OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that many autoimmune diseases share common genetic risk factors and to define the frequency and distribution of autoimmune diseases in relatives of patients with very rare disorders, the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). METHODS: We evaluated, in a prospective case-control study, consecutive patients with IIM who were referred to our center and ascertained without regard...
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