Heterogeneity between men and women in the influence of the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope on the clinical expression of rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1480-1488

  Del Rincón, Inmaculada ^a   Battafarano, Daniel F ^b   Arroyo, Ramón A ^c,d   Murphy, Frederick T ^b   Escalante, Agustín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036277015     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10295     Document Type: Article

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