ITGAV polymorphism and disease susceptibility in a Japanese rheumatoid arthritis population

doi:10.1186/ar2303

Arthritis Research & Therapy

Volume 9
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ITGAV polymorphism and disease susceptibility in a Japanese rheumatoid arthritis population

Noriko Iikuni, Shu Kobayashi, Katsunori Ikari , Taisuke Tomatsu, Masako Hara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Naoyuki Kamatani and Shigeki Momohara

Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 10-22 Kawada, Tokyo, 162-0054 Japan

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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2007, 9:405doi:10.1186/ar2303


Published:	31 October 2007

See related research by Jacq et al., http://arthritis-research.com/content/9/4/R63 and related editorial by Ahnert and Kirsten, http://arthritis-research.com/content/9/5/108

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A research article by Jacq and colleagues [1], recently published in this journal, reported an association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the rs3738919-C allele in the ITGV gene, which encodes the α_vsubunit of the integrin α_vβ₃, in a European Caucasian population.