Polyarticular osteoarthritis - Two major phenotypes hypothesized

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 315-318

  Carroll, Graeme J ^a,b,c  

^a ArthroCare   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HFE PROTEIN;

ANKLE; ARTHROPATHY; CAUCASIAN; DISTAL PHALANX; ELBOW; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HALLUX; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIP; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; KNEE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYARTICULAR OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TARSAL JOINT; TARSOMETATARSAL JOINT;

EID: 28844455612     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.08.028     Document Type: Article

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