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ReviewRheumatic diseases clinics of North America2017

Human Leukocyte Antigen-Disease Associations in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Vincent van Drongelen, Joseph Holoshitz

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Review in Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
65citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 145 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vincent van DrongelenDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Joseph HoloshitzDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: jholo@umich.edu.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Immune Modulating HLA-Coded Ligands in Rheumatoid ArthritisR01AR059085 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HOLOSHITZ, JOSEPH · 2011 to 2020
$3.8M
Class II MHC Allele-Specific Signaling: A New Paradigm in Disease PathogenesisR01GM088560 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HOLOSHITZ, JOSEPH · 2009 to 2012
$1.2M
A novel bone-destructive pathway in periodontal diseaseR21DE023845 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HOLOSHITZ, JOSEPH · 2014 to 2015
$427k
A novel mechanism of gene-environment interaction in autoimmune arthritisR21ES024428 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI HOLOSHITZ, JOSEPH · 2014 to 2015
$427k
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR059085NIDCR NIH HHS R21 DE023845NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES024428NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cause and pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are influenced by environmental and genetic risk factors. Shared epitope-coding human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 alleles increase RA risk and severity; however, the underlying mechanisms of action remain unclear. In contrast, several other DRB1 alleles protect against RA. Additionally, genome-wide association studies suggest that RA associates with other, HLA and non-HLA, genes; but the relative contributions of such risk loci to RA are incompletely understood. Future research challenges include integrating the epidemiologic and genomic data into validated arthritogenic pathways and determining the mechanisms of interaction between RA risk genes and environmental influences.

Indexed as

AllelesArthritis, RheumatoidEpitopesGene-Environment InteractionHLA AntigensHumansEpitopesHLA AntigensAutoimmunityHLARheumatoid arthritisShared epitope

Identifiers

PMID28711139
PMCPMC5643023
OpenAlexW2734800566

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Registered trials

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