## Abstract ## Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a heterogeneous disease that exhibits a complex genetic component. Previous RA genome scans confirmed the involvement of the HLA region and generated data on suggestive signals at nonβHLA regions, albeit with few overlaps in findings between st
Genome-wide meta-analysis for rheumatoid arthritis
β Scribed by Carol J. Etzel; Wei V. Chen; Neil Shepard; Damini Jawaheer; Francois Cornelis; Michael F. Seldin; Peter K. Gregersen; Christopher I. Amos; for the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 874 KB
- Volume
- 119
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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