Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

The genetic association of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) to rheumatoid arthritis risk has commonly been attributed to HLA-DRB1 alleles. Yet controversy persists about the causal variants in HLA-DRB1 and the presence of independent effects elsewhere in the MHC. Using existing genome-wide...

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Main Authors: Raychaudhuri, Soumya, Sandor, Cynthia, Stahl, Eli A., Freudenberg, Jan, Lee, Hye-Soon, Jia, Xiaoming, Alfredsson, Lars, Padyukov, Leonid, Klareskog, Lars, Worthington, Jane, Siminovitch, Katherine A., Bae, Sang-Cheol, Plenge, Robert M., Gregersen, Peter K., de Bakker, Paul I.W.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3288335/

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