Rheumatoid arthritis: Evidence for a genetic component to disease severity in RA

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 312-313

  Stahl, Eli A ^a   Raychaudhuri, Soumya ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

BONE EROSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; JOINT DESTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILY HEALTH; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84861683071     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.74     Document Type: Review

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