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SUBMITTER: Bek S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637244 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bek S S Bojesen A B AB Nielsen J V JV Sode J J Bank S S Vogel U U Andersen V V
The pharmacogenomics journal 20170613 5
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects ~1% of the Caucasian population. Over the last decades, the availability of biological drugs targeting the proinflammatory cytokine tumour necrosis factor α, anti-TNF drugs, has improved the treatment of patients with RA. However, one-third of the patients do not respond to the treatment. We wanted to evaluate the status of pharmacogenomics of anti-TNF treatment. We performed a PubMed literature search and all studies repor ...[more]