Share Epitope, Citrullinated Cyclic Peptide Antibodies and Smoking in Brazilian Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
✍ Scribed by Rene Donizeti Oliveira; Cristina Maria Junta; Fabíola Reis Oliveira; Lucienir Maria Silva; Eduardo Antonio Donadi; Paulo Louzada-Junior
- Book ID
- 107568316
- Publisher
- Humana Press Inc
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 81 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1080-0549
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## Abstract ## Objective Anti–cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti‐CCP) antibodies are rheumatoid arthritis (RA)–specific serologic markers. RA susceptibility has been associated with HLA–DRB1 shared epitope (SE) alleles and single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) haplotypes in the peptidyl arginine de
## Abstract ## Objective To examine the association between HLA–DRB1 alleles and the production of anti–cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti‐CCP) and rheumatoid factor (RF) autoantibodies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). ## Methods We studied 1,723 Caucasian RA patients enrolled in the