Increased frequency of extremely skewed X chromosome inactivation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3410-3412

  Uz, Elif ^a   Mustafa, Chigdem ^a   Topaloglu, Rezan ^b   Bilginer, Yelda ^b   Dursun, Ali ^b   Kasapcopur, Ozgur ^c   Ozen, Seza ^b   Bakkaloglu, Aysin ^b   Ozcelik, Tayfun ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RISK FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 70350546008     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.24956     Document Type: Article

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