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Genetic risk scores in inflammatory arthritis: a new era?

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Early diagnosis of immune-mediated arthropathies is important for early and effective treatment, but often relies on clinical expertise. Can the use of a new genetic risk score help rule out and prioritize certain diagnoses? And does this score add any clinical utility to current clinical diagnostic pathways?

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  1. Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, England

    Matthew A. Brown

  2. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine 3, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Daniel Aletaha

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Brown, M.A., Aletaha, D. Genetic risk scores in inflammatory arthritis: a new era?. Nat Rev Rheumatol 16, 545–546 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-020-0473-6

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