Smoking increases rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility in individuals carrying the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope, regardless of rheumatoid factor or anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody status

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 369-377

  Bang, So Young ^a   Lee, Kyoung Ho ^b   Cho, Soo Kyung ^a   Lee, Hye Soon ^a   Lee, Kyung Wha ^c   Bae, Sang Cheol ^a  

^a Hanyang University Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; HLA DR ANTIGEN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SMOKING;

ADULT; ALLELES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 75749143915     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.27272     Document Type: Article

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