HLA markers in a community-based rheumatoid arthritis series

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 291-296

  Hakala, Markku ^a   Silvennoinen Kassinen, Sylvi ^a   Ikäheimo, Irma ^a   Isosomppi, Juha ^a   Tiilikainen, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Community; DRB1 alleles; Functional assessment; HLA; HLA DR3; Systemic complications

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR3 ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 0030880216     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853899708999350     Document Type: Article

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