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Extended reports

• Balloon angioplasty of arteries of the upper extremities in patients with extracranial giant-cell arteritis (7 February, 2006)

  M Both, P M Aries, S Müller-Hülsbeck, T Jahnke, P J Schäfer, W L Gross, M Heller, M Reuter
• Linkage to nodal osteoarthritis: quantitative and qualitative analyses of data from a whole-genome screen identify trait-dependent susceptibility loci (27 February, 2006)

  C Greig, K Spreckley, R Aspinwall, E Gillaspy, M Grant, W Ollier, S John, M Doherty, G Wallis
• Membrane glucocorticoid receptors are down regulated by glucocorticoids in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and use a caveolin-1-independent expression pathway (31 January, 2006)

  C M Spies, D H S Schaumann, T Berki, K Mayer, M Jakstadt, D Huscher, C Wunder, G-R Burmester, A Radbruch, R Lauster, A Scheffold, F Buttgereit
• Efficacy of sulfasalazine in patients with inflammatory back pain due to undifferentiated spondyloarthritis and early ankylosing spondylitis: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (10 April, 2006)

  J Braun, J Zochling, X Baraliakos, R Alten, G Burmester, K Grasedyck, J Brandt, H Haibel, M Hammer, A Krause, F Mielke, H-P Tony, W Ebner, B Gömör, J Hermann, H Zeidler, E Beck, M Baumgaertner, J Sieper
• Intrafamilial segregation analysis of the p.E148Q MEFV allele in familial Mediterranean fever

  (26 January, 2006)

  D O Tchernitchko, M Gérard-Blanluet, M Legendre, C Cazeneuve, G Grateau, S Amselem
• Clinical significance of P46L and R92Q substitutions in the tumour necrosis factor superfamily 1A gene (28 March, 2006)

  N Ravet, S Rouaghe, C Dodé, J Bienvenu, J Stirnemann, P Lévy, M Delpech, G Grateau
• Smoking interacts with genetic risk factors in the development of rheumatoid arthritis among older Caucasian women (3 August, 2006)

  L A Criswell, K G Saag, T R Mikuls, J R Cerhan, L A Merlino, R F Lum, K A Pfeiffer, B Woehl, M F Seldin
• Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic cohort: LUMINA XXXV. Predictive factors of high disease activity over time (26 January, 2006)

  G S Alarcón, J Calvo-Alén, G McGwin, A G Uribe, S M A Toloza, J M Roseman, M Fernández, B J Fessler, L M Vilá, C Ahn, F K Tan, J D Reveille
• Cost of illness in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus in Germany (15 March, 2006)

  D Huscher, S Merkesdal, K Thiele, H Zeidler, M Schneider, A Zink
• Risk for malignant lymphoma in ankylosing spondylitis: a nationwide Swedish case–control study (13 January, 2006)

  J Askling, L Klareskog, P Blomqvist, M Fored, N Feltelius
• Epistatic interaction between FCRL3 and NFκB1 genes in Spanish patients with rheumatoid arthritis

  (13 February, 2006)

  A Martínez, E Sánchez, A Valdivia, G Orozco, M A López-Nevot, D Pascual-Salcedo, A Balsa, B Fernández-Gutiérrez, E G de la Concha, A García-Sánchez, B P C Koeleman, E Urcelay, J Martín
• Progression of radiographic joint damage in different eras: trends towards milder disease in rheumatoid arthritis are attributable to improved treatment (15 March, 2006)

  A Finckh, H K Choi, F Wolfe
• Changes in plasma levels of fat-derived hormones adiponectin, leptin, resistin and visfatin in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (13 January, 2006)

  M Otero, R Lago, R Gomez, F Lago, C Dieguez, J J Gómez-Reino, O Gualillo
• Atherosclerosis in Takayasu arteritis (26 January, 2006)

  E Seyahi, S Ugurlu, R Cumali, H Balci, N Seyahi, S Yurdakul, H Yazici
• Low-cost, low-field dedicated extremity magnetic resonance imaging in early rheumatoid arthritis: a 1-year follow-up study (15 March, 2006)

  H M Lindegaard, J Vallø, K Hørslev-Petersen, P Junker, M Østergaard
• Racial or ethnic differences in allele frequencies of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene and their influence on response to methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis (26 January, 2006) Free

  L B Hughes, T M Beasley, H Patel, H K Tiwari, S L Morgan, J E Baggott, K G Saag, J McNicholl, L W Moreland, G S Alarcón, S L Bridges