Familial giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica: Aggregation in 2 families

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1551-1555

  Fietta, Pieranna ^a   Manganelli, Paolo ^a   Zanetti, Adele ^a   Neri, Tauro Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Familial aggregation; Giant cell arteritis; HLA typing; Polymyalgia rheumatica

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR3 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIATION (GENETICS); HUMANS;

EID: 0035992967     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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