Acquisition of the rheumatoid arthritis HLA shared epitope through microchimerism

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 640-644

  Yan, Zhen ^a   Aydelotte, Tessa ^a   Gadi, V K ^a,b   Guthrie, Katherine A ^a   Nelson, J Lee ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCHIMERISM; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHIMERISM; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79953709131     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.30160     Document Type: Article

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