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Transmission disequilibrium as a test of linkage and association between HLA alleles and pauciarticular-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Sept 1998
Moroldo M B, Donnelly P, Saunders J, Glass D N, Giannini E H
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OBJECTIVE: To determine if HLA class I and II alleles previously found to be associated with (or protective against) pauciarticular-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (pauci-onset JRA) in population-association studies are transmitted from heterozygous parents to an extent different from the expected 50%. METHODS: One hundred one Caucasian North American families that had a child with pauci-onset JRA and at...
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