Dissection of class III major histocompatibility complex haplotypes associated with rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2122-2129

  Newton, Julia L ^a   Harney, Sinéad M J ^a,b   Timms, Andrew E ^a,b   Sims, Anne Marie ^a,b   Rockett, Kirk ^a   Darke, Chris ^c   Wordsworth, B Paul ^b   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^a   Brown, Matthew A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Welsh Blood Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOTOXIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LYMPHOTOXIN-ALPHA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 3142724044     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20358     Document Type: Article

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