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Synovial Epstein-Barr virus infection increases the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in individuals with the shared HLA-DR4 epitope

DOI

106

Citations

40

References

1999

Year

J. G. Saal, Michael Krimmel, Michael Steidle, Friederike Gerneth, Silvia Wagner, Péter Fritz, Silvia Koch, J. Zacher, Stefan Sell, Hermann Einsele,
Arthritis & Rheumatism

Abstract

EBV seems to function as an environmental risk factor for RA, particularly in patients with the RA-linked HLA-DRB1 alleles.

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