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Elizabeth Mellins

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  • Hierarchy of risk of childhood-onset rheumatoid arthritis conferred by HLA-DRB1 alleles encoding the shared epitope.

    Prahalad S, Thompson SD, Conneely KN, Jiang Y, Leong T, Prozonic J, Brown MR, Ponder LA, Angeles-Han ST, Vogler LB, Kennedy C, Wallace CA, Wise CA, Punaro M, Reed A, Park JL, Mellins ED, Zeft AS, Bohnsack JF, Glass DN. Arthritis Rheum. 2012; 64 (3): 925-30

    Associations between shared epitope (SE)-encoding HLA-DRB1 alleles and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are well established. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated these alleles in patients with childhood-onset RA, which is defined as rheumatoid factor- and/or anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The aims of this study were to investigate the largest cohort of patients with childhood-onset RA for association with SE alleles and to determine whether there is a hierarchy of risk based on the amino acid sequence of the SE.

    PubMedID: 21953520

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