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ReviewArthritis research & therapy2009

The value of animal models in predicting genetic susceptibility to complex diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Emma Ahlqvist, Malin Hultqvist, Rikard Holmdahl

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Review in Arthritis research & therapy, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Special issue: global 3Rs efforts - making progress and gaining momentum.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2015
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  5. Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis - a comprehensive review.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Emma AhlqvistMedical Inflammation Research, Lund University, C12 BMC, 221 84 Lund, Sweden. emma.ahlqvist@med.lu.se
Malin Hultqvist
Rikard Holmdahl

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For a long time, genetic studies of complex diseases were most successfully conducted in animal models. However, the field of genetics is now rapidly evolving, and human genetics has also started to produce strong candidate genes for complex diseases. This raises the question of how to continue gene-finding attempts in animals and how to use animal models to enhance our understanding of gene function. In this review we summarize the uses and advantages of animal studies in identification of disease susceptibility genes, focusing on rheumatoid arthritis. We are convinced that animal genetics will remain a valuable tool for the identification and investigation of pathways that lead to disease, well into the future.

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Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsArthritis, RheumatoidGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansPredictive Value of Tests

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PMID19490601
PMCPMC2714094

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