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    • Familial primary biliary cirrhosis: Like mother, like daughter? 

      Smyk, D. S.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Pares, A.; Mytilinaiou, M. G.; Invernizzi, P.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2012)
      The reasons underlying why autoimmune diseases overwhelmingly affect women more than men are not clear. Nor are the reasons why autoimmune disease is more prevalent in families. This review uses primary biliary cirrhosis ...

    • Heterogeneity testing in meta-analysis of genome searches 

      Zintzaras, E.; Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005)
      Genome searches for identifying susceptibility loci for the same complex disease often give inconclusive or inconsistent results. Genome Search Meta-analysis (GSMA) is an established non-parametric method to identify genetic ...

    • Increased prevalence of anti-thyroid antibodies in patients with limited scleroderma 

      Danielides, S.; Mavragani, C. P.; Katsakoulas, I.; Zintzaras, E.; Drosos, A. A.; Vlachoyiannopoulos, P. G.; Moutsopoulos, H. M. (2011)
      Objectives: Thyroid dysfunction in the setting of systemic sclerosis (SSc) has been described previously. We aimed to determine the prevalence of anti-thyroid antibodies (ATA) in a large SSc cohort and to ascertain whether ...

    • Upregulation of antiphospholipid antibodies following cyclophosphamide therapy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus 

      Vlachoyiannopoulos, P. G.; Toya, S. P.; Katsifis, G.; Zintzaras, E.; Tzioufas, A. G.; Moutsopoulos, H. M. (2008)
      Objective. We have observed several cases of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who developed antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) or full blown antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) after being successfully treated ...