Arthritis Research & Therapy

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A case-control study of rheumatoid arthritis identifies an associated single nucleotide polymorphism in the NCF4 gene, supporting a role for the NADPH-oxidase complex in autoimmunity

Lina M Olsson1*, Anna-Karin Lindqvist1,2, Henrik Källberg3, Leonid Padyukov4, Harald Burkhardt5, Lars Alfredsson3, Lars Klareskog4 and Rikard Holmdahl1

Author Affiliations

1 Medical Inflammation Research, Lund University, BMC I11, 221 84, Lund, Sweden

2 Cartela AB, Box 709, SE-220 07 Lund Sweden

3 Institute for Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden

4 Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden

5 Division of rheumatology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Theodor-Stern-Kai, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2007, 9:R98 doi:10.1186/ar2299

Published: 26 September 2007

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An Word file containing a table that shows a table of all SNPs evaluated for association with RA in this study.

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