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Gene–environment interaction between HLA-DRB1 shared epitope and heavy cigarette smoking in predicting incident rheumatoid arthritis

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported an interaction between ever cigarette smoking and the presence of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 shared epitope (SE) genotype and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk. To address the effect of dosage, a case-control study nested within two prospective coh...

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Autores principales: Karlson, E W, Chang, S-C, Cui, J, Chibnik, L B, Fraser, P A, De Vivo, I, Costenbader, K H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19151010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.2008.102962