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Nature Medicine  1, 207 - 208 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0395-207

Agalactosyl IgG and mannose-binding proteins: Biochemical nicety or pathophysiological paradigm?

R. Alan B. Ezekowitz1

1Division of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Department of Pediatrics Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA

It is unclear whether modified immunoglobulins are at least partially responsible for rheumatoid arthritis (pages 237−243) or only an effect of the disease.

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