Shared familial aggregation of susceptibility to autoimmune diseases

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2845-2847

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Li, Xinjun ^b   Sundquist, Kristina ^b   Sundquist, Jan ^c,d  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; HLA ANTIGEN; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REGISTER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELIAC DISEASE; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 69449095342     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.24749     Document Type: Article

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