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Genetic typing of patients with inflammatory arthritis at presentation can be used to predict outcome

Andrew Gough, Jeff Faint, Mike Salmon, Andrew Hassell, P Wordsworth, Darrell Pilling, Andrew J. Birley, Paul Emery

Arthritis & Rheumatism · 1994 · 192 citations · 24 references

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Knowledge of a patient's HLA-DR type and RF status allows clinically useful prediction of erosive disease; patients possessing Dw4/Dw14 represent a particularly high-risk subgroup.

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The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

Frank C. Arnett, Steven M. Edworthy, D. Blöch et al. · Arthritis & Rheumatism · 1988 · 19.8K citations

Information theory and statistics

Journal of the Franklin Institute · 1959 · 7.2K citations

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ON ESTIMATING THE RELATION BETWEEN BLOOD GROUP AND DISEASE

Barnet Woolf · Annals of Human Genetics · 1955 · 2.7K citations

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Association of the B-Cell Alloantigen DRw4 with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Peter Šťastný · New England Journal of Medicine · 1978 · 1.2K citations

HLA-DR4 subtype frequencies in rheumatoid arthritis indicate that DRB1 is the major susceptibility locus within the HLA class II region.

B. P. Wordsworth, Jerry S. Lanchbury, Lazaros I. Sakkas et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1989 · 372 citations · Full text

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