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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on March 5, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(5):591-592; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep035
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Clinical, serological and HLA profiles in non-Caucasian UK idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Hector Chinoy1,2, Fiona Salway1, Noreen Fertig3, Chester V. Oddis3, William E. Ollier1 and Robert G. Cooper2

1Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, The University of Manchester, 2The University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK and 3Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA on behalf of the UK Adult Onset Myositis Immunogenetic Collaboration

Correspondence to: Robert G. Cooper, The University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Stott Lane, Salford M6 8HD, UK. E-mail: robert.g.cooper@manchester.ac.uk

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SIR, Since 2000, the UK Adult Onset Myositis Immunogenetic Collaboration (AOMIC) has recruited idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) cases across the UK. In this brief report, we summarize the clinical, serological and HLA Class II status of non-Caucasian IIM cases, to ascertain whether differences are observed among UK IIM ethnic populations.

DNA was available from 28 UK non-Caucasian IIM cases. Adult IIM patients, aged >=18 years of age at disease onset, with probable or definite myositis [1] were recruited through AOMIC . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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