… William E Ollier22, … Ingrid E Lundberg24, … 10 Clinica Medica, Dipartimento di Scienze
Cliniche e Molecolari, Università Politecnica delle Marche & Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy …

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a common, polygenic chronic disease with high heritability. The
purpose of this whole-genome association study was to discover novel T2D-associated genes. …

PURPOSE: To examine endothelial function in rheumatoid arthritis patients and to assess
whether clinical or genetic factors affect the development of endothelial dysfunction. …

Objectives The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a heterogeneous group of
rare autoimmune diseases characterised by muscle weakness and extramuscular …

It was investigated whether a deficiency of mannose-binding lectin (MBL), which binds
Aspergillus species avidly in vitro, could account for chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis (…

Background and objectives Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is a common disorder affecting
∼10% of the general population and has an estimated heritability of 48–52%. In the first …

Objective Behçet's disease is generally considered to be a multifactorial disease with important
genetic and environmental components. A strong association between an HLA class I …

Objectives Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a spectrum of rare autoimmune
diseases characterised clinically by muscle weakness and heterogeneous systemic organ …

Objectives To characterize the 10 year relationship between anti-transcriptional intermediary
factor 1 antibody (anti-TIF1-Ab) positivity and cancer onset in a large UK-based adult DM …

To determine whether canine rheumatoid arthritis (CRA) is associated with dog MHC (DLA-DRB1)
alleles which contain the QRRAA/RKRAA conserved third hypervariable region (…