Genetic and epigenetic predictors of responsiveness to treatment in RA

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 329-337

  Plant, Darren ^a   Wilson, Anthony G ^b   Barton, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CADHERIN; CD84 ANTIGEN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; DNA; ETANERCEPT; GAMMA INTERFERON; HISTONE H3; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 6; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; METHOTREXATE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATIC GENE; CPG ISLAND; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IFN GAMMA GENE; IL6 GENE; MTHFR GENE; PCDH10 GENE; PHARMACOGENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SLC19A1 GENE; TNF GENE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84901928838     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2014.16     Document Type: Review

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