In a new study published in the November 2006 issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism, scientists at the University Of Michigan Medical School reported evidence that challenges longstanding theories about the cause of rheumatoid arthritis.
The focus of the study was to discover why almost 95 percent of RA patients have a common sequence of DNA (called a shared epitope), and why these patients tend to have more severe forms of the disease than patients without it. The current prevailing theory is that...
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