The HLA-DRB1 shared epitope is associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans through European genetic admixture

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 349-358

  Hughes, Laura B ^a   Morrison, Dahliann ^k   Kelley, James M ^a   Padilla, Miguel A ^a   Vaughan, L Kelly ^a   Westfall, Andrew O ^a   Dwivedi, Harshit ^a   Mikuls, Ted R ^c   Holers, Michael ^d   Parrish, Lezlie A ^d   Alarcón, Graciela S ^a   Conn, Doyt L ^e   Jonas, Beth L ^f   Callahan, Leigh F ^f   Smith, Edwin A ^g   Gilkeson, Gary S ^g   Howard, George ^a   Moreland, Larry W ^a   Patterson, Nick ^h   Reich, David ^h,i   Bridges Jr , S Louis ^b,j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^k NONE

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLELES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EPITOPES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 39749129030     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.23166     Document Type: Article

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