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SUBMITTER: Donn R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2040228 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Donn Rachelle R Payne Debbie D Ray David D
Clinical endocrinology 20070528 3
<h4>Background</h4>A defect in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function has been suggested to contribute to susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA).<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate polymorphisms of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene and determine any associations with RA.<h4>Methods</h4>Three GR polymorphisms that tag 95% of all haplotypes across the GR gene were genotyped. These are an intron B Bcl1 polymorphism, a ttg insertion/deletion within intron F (rs2307674) and the sing ...[more]