HLA-DRB1 in eight Finnish monozygotic twin pairs concordant for rheumatoid arthritis

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 49, Issue 3 I, 1997, Pages 277-279

  De Vries, N ^a   Tijssen, H ^a   Jarvinen, P ^b   Aho, K ^c   Van De Putte, L B A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Kiljava Hospital   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

DRB1 typing; Homozygosity; Monozygotic twin; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sequence specific oligonucleotide

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; FINLAND; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 0030935702     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02752.x     Document Type: Article

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