Variation in radiologic joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis differs between monozygotic and dizygotic twins and pairs of unrelated patients

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2028-2030

  Van Der Helm Van Mil, Annette H M ^a   Kern, M ^b   Gregersen, Peter K ^b   Huizinga, Tom W J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROGRAPHY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33745049883     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21872     Document Type: Article

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