Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) gene polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to but not severity of inflammatory polyarthritis

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 487-491

  Barton, A ^a   Lamb, R ^a   Symmons, D ^a   Silman, A ^a   Thomson, W ^a   Worthington, J ^a   Donn, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erosions; Genetics; Inflammatory polyarthritis; MIF; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYSTEINE; DNA; GLYCINE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; THREONINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; UNITED KINGDOM; AGED; ARTHRITIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION-INHIBITORY FACTORS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2342512917     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6364014     Document Type: Article

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