Rheumatoid arthritis in Poland and Lithuania: Different clinical course and HLA associations despite similar genetic background

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 165-166

  Ploski R ^a   Butrimiene, I ^b   Kaminska E ^c   Valiukiene, K ^b   Sliwinska P ^c   Kubasiewicz, E ^c   Kozakiewicz, A ^c   Smerdel, A ^d   Kucinskas V ^b   Jaworski, J ^c   Jastrzebska E ^a   Forre, O ^d   Venalis, A ^b   Pazdur, J ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATOLOGY   (Poland)

^d OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 19944428558     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.019158     Document Type: Article

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