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S L Bridges1, L B Hughes, T R Mikuls
1Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Division of Clinical Immu-nology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 415 Lyons-Harrison Research Building, 701 19th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0007, USA. lbridges@uab.edu
Abstract:
African-Americans have been under-represented in genetic studies of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility and severity. Genetic and non-genetic factors influencing the radiographic severity of RA and its response to treatment are poorly understood, particularly in African-Americans. The Consortium for the Longitudinal Evaluation of African-Americans with early RA (CLEAR) Registry, a collaborative effort among four institutions in the southeast USA, will hopefully provide a useful resource to study these issues.
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