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Title
Smoking is a risk factor for anti-CCP antibodies only in rheumatoid arthritis patients who carry HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles.
Authors
Linn-Rasker, S P; van der Helm-van Mil, A H M; van Gaalen, F A; Kloppenburg, M; de Vries, R R P; le Cessie, S; Breedveld, F C; Toes, R E M; Huizinga, T W J
Abstract
To study the gene-environment interaction of tobacco exposure and shared epitope on autoantibodies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and undifferentiated arthritis.
Publication
Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2006, Vol 65, Issue 3, p366