This article is part of the supplement: 15th Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PreS) Congress
Poster presentation
The TRAF1/C5 region is a risk factor for polyarthritis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
1 Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
2 Erasmus Medical Center – Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
3 University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
4 University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
5 Emma Children's Hospital AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pediatric Rheumatology 2008, 6(Suppl 1):P11 doi:10.1186/1546-0096-6-S1-P11
Published: 15 September 2008First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic disorder in which both genetic and environmental factors are involved. Recently we identified the TRAF1/C5 region (located on chromosome 9q33-34) as a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (pcombined = 1.4 × 10-8) [1]. In the present study the association of the TRAF1/C5 region with the susceptibility to JIA was investigated.