Rheumatic Fever in Siblings
- 25 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 278 (4) , 183-188
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196801252780403
Abstract
Most attacks of rheumatic fever have only one or two major clinical manifestations. The possibility that the host is genetically predisposed to individual manifestations was explored by determining whether siblings with rheumatic fever tend to have the same manifestations and sequelae.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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