Letter
ITGAV polymorphism and disease susceptibility in a Japanese rheumatoid arthritis population
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* Corresponding author: Katsunori Ikari kikari@ior.twmu.ac.jp
Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 10-22 Kawada, Tokyo, 162-0054 Japan
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2007, 9:405 doi:10.1186/ar2303
Published: 31 October 2007First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
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 αv subunit of the integrin αvβ3, in a European Caucasian population.