Concordance of autoimmune disease in a nationwide Danish systemic lupus erythematosus twin cohort

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 538-544

  Ulff Møller, Constance Jensina ^a   Svendsen, Anders Jørgen ^b   Viemose, Louise Nørgaard ^a   Jacobsen, Søren ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Concordance; Recurrence risk; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DANISH CITIZEN; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TWIN CONCORDANCE; DENMARK; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; TWINS;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 85025840289     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2017.06.007     Document Type: Article

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