TY - GEN ID - cogprints7305 UR - http://cogprints.org/7305/ A1 - Anupama Sharma, Ajay kumar Singh, Sanjeev kumar Singh, Neelima Singh, Varsha Gupta Int J Cur Sci Res. Y1 - 2011/04/30/ N2 - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a systemic autoimmune condition, causes joint damage and sometimes extra-articular lesions (cutaneous vasculitis, neuropathy, Felty?s syndrome, pericarditis, intersticial lung disease) that may be life threatening. The reason why extra-articular features will develop in rare RA patients is unknown. Our study was aimed to find any disease correlation with respect to a few genetic loci implicated in rheumatoid arthritis. In our study no significant association was observed for NFkB1 and MMP-1. However HLA-DRB1 showed polymorphism in RA and controls. The study was conducted on 60 patients, where 30 were control and 30 were diseased. All the patients selected for the study were RF (rheumatoid factor) positive. Therefore the studies need to be conducted on larger group of patients, so that the association can be verified in Caucasian population (Indian scenario). PB - CurrentSciDirect Publications KW - Rheumatoid arthritis KW - Rheumatoid factor KW - HLA-DRB1 KW - MMP1 KW - NFkB1. TI - Evolving clinical profile of HLA-DRB1, MMP1 and NF-?b gene in rheumatoid factor positive Caucasian population SP - 31 AV - public EP - 34 ER -