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- Correspondence to Professor William G Dixon, Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; will.dixon{at}manchester.ac.uk
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- Received October 3, 2016
- Revised January 9, 2017
- Accepted February 6, 2017
- First published March 23, 2017.
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