Sex influences on the penetrance of HLA shared-epitope genotypes for rheumatoid arthritis

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 371-383

  Meyer, Joanne M ^a   Han, Jinfeng ^a   Singh, Rovinder ^a   Moxley, George ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; DNA; EPITOPE; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA DR1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0030051769     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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