Epidemiology: Interpreting studies of interactions between RA risk factors

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 72-73

  Karlson, Elizabeth W ^a   Costenbader, Karen H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN;

DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE, NON-RECEPTOR TYPE 22; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 76649112051     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2009.276     Document Type: Short Survey

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