Rheumatoid arthritis in southern Spain: Toward elucidation of a unifying role of the HLA class II region in disease predisposition

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-314

  Pascual, M ^a   Nieto, A ^a   Lopez Nevot M A ^b   Ramal, L ^b   Mataran L ^b   Caballero, A ^c   Alonso, A ^c   Martin J ^a   Zanelli, E ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN;

ALLELES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HLA-DR1 ANTIGEN; HLA-DR4 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 0035092529     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200102)44:2<307::AID-ANR47>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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