Use of supplementary phenotype to identify additional rheumatoid arthritis loci in a linkage analysis of 342 UK affected sibling pair families

• Main Authors: Trevisan Maurizio (Author), Miller Austin (Author), Kelemen Arpad (Author), Liang Yulan (Author), Tayo Bamidele O (Author), Cooper Richard S (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although rheumatoid arthritis has been shown to have moderately strong genetic component, both linked loci identified in linkage analyses and susceptibility variants from association studies are short of adequately accounting for a c...