TNFR2 position 196 polymorphism in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Comment on the article by Dieudé et al [4]

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 273-274

  Kyogoku, Chieko ^a   Tsuchiya, Naoyuki ^a   Shibue, Tsukasa ^a   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^a   Matsuta, Kunio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Matsuta Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; ANTIGENS, CD; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE II;

EID: 0037236621     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10600     Document Type: Letter

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