This article reviews the literature concerning rheumatic manifestations of inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD), including common immune-mediated pathways, frequency, clinical course …

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), the prototypic seronegative arthropathy, is known to be highly
heritable, with> 90% of the risk of developing the disease determined genetically. As with …

Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a debilitating rheumatic disease that gives young adults a
severe form of arthritis with pain and stiffness in the axial skeleton. After the discovery of …

Objective. Associations have been found between ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and
polymorphisms in the aminopeptidase regulator of TNFR1 shedding (ARTS1) gene. We …

Background The aim of the study was to determine whether polymorphisms in toll-like
receptor 4 (TLR4) confer susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic …

Objectives. HLA-B51 is strongly associated with Behçet's disease (BD) in any ethnic
background. We recently reported that another gene, Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) is also …

A tremendous amount of progress has been made with respect to understanding the genetic
basis of ankylosing spondylitis. The recent identification of two new genes, ARTS1 and …

Recent studies published on the genetic basis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) reflect novel
areas of investigation and extension of recent advances. As HLA-B27 subtypes have been …

Objective. Dendritic cells localized at the adventitia-media border of the normal medium-
sized arteries play a pivotal role in the initiation of giant cell arteritis (GCA). These cells …

The aim of this study was to determine whether toll-like receptor (TLR) polymorphisms
confer susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and influence the clinical characteristics of …