No evidence for association of the systemic lupus erythematosus-associated ITGAM variant, R77H, with rheumatoid arthritis in the Caucasian population

Rheumatology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1614-1615

  Phipps Green, Amanda J ^a   Topless, Ruth K G ^a   Merriman, Marilyn E ^a   Dalbeth, Nicola ^b   Gow, Peter J ^c   Harrison, Andrew A ^a   Highton, John ^a   Jones, Peter B B ^b   Stamp, Lisa K ^d   Harrison, Pille ^e   Wordsworth, Bryan P ^e   Merriman, Tony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MIDDLEMORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; ARGININE; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; HISTIDINE; INTEGRIN ALPHA M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANTIGENS, CD11B; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 75649117740     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep254     Document Type: Letter

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