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Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis |
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| Authors: | H. Payami G. Thomson M. A. Khan D. M. Grennan P. Sanders P. Dyer C. Dostal |
| Affiliation: | Department of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, CA;Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A;Rheumatic Disease Center, Hope Hospital, Salford, U.K.;Research Institute of Rheumatoid Diseases, Na Slupi c.4, Praha, Czechoslovakia |
| Abstract: | The haplotype sharing distribution in affected sib pairs are used to demonstrate the linkage of a susceptibility gene for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to the HLA region. Family and population studies suggest heterogeneity in the etiology of RA. |
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