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Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica can be differentiated by distinct patterns of HLA class II association.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Nov 1998
Dababneh A, Gonzalez-Gay M A, Garcia-Porrua C, Hajeer A, Thomson W, Ollier W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) exhibit identical HLA class II associations. METHODS: A case-control association study was performed on a population sample from Lugo, in Northwestern Spain. DNA samples were available for 128 patients and 145 ethnically matched controls. Within the patient group 26 exhibited both PMR and GCA, 75 PMR alone,...
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