Association of oestrogen receptor gene polymorphisms with age at onset of rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-10

  Ushiyama, Toshio ^a   Mori, Kanji ^a   Inoue, Koji ^a   Huang, Jie ^a   Nishioka, Junichi ^a   Hukuda, Sinsuke ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 0033033918     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.58.1.7     Document Type: Article

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