Journal article
In adult onset myositis, the presence of interstitial lung disease and myositis specific/associated antibodies are governed by HLA class II haplotype, rather than by myositis subtype.
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The aim of this study was to investigate HLA class II associations in polymyositis (PM) and dermatomyositis (DM), and to determine how these associations influence clinical and serological differences. DNA samples were obtained from 225 UK Caucasian idiopathic inflammatory myopathy patients (PM = 117, DM = 108) and compared with 537 randomly selected UK Caucasian controls. All cases had also been assessed for the presence of related malignancy and interstitial lung disease (ILD), and a number...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Myositis Support Group
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Arthritis Research and Therapy Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- R13
- Publication date:
- 2005-12-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1478-6362
- ISSN:
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1478-6354
- Source identifiers:
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109634
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:109634
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Chinoy et al
- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Notes:
- © 2005 Chinoy et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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