Non-inherited maternal human leukocyte antigen alleles in susceptibility to familial rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-109

  Guthrie, K A ^a   Tishkevich, N R ^b   Nelson, J L ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PARITY; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALLELES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; RISK; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 58349085962     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2008.092312     Document Type: Article

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