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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
PW01-038 – Genomewide association study of Still’s disease
Authors:
MJ Ombrello, EF Remmers, E Zeggini, W Thomson, DL Kastner, P Woo, International Childhood Arthritis Genetics Consortium (INCHARGE)
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Still’s disease or systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is a severe inflammatory disease of childhood characterized by periods of daily spiking fever, evanescent skin rash, severe arthritis, serositis, lymphoid hyperplasia, and, in up to half of cases, macrophage activation syndrome. Although thought to have a genetic component, the causes of sJIA are unknown. …