Familial aggregation and heritability: a nationwide family-based study of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.

Weng Ian Che Helga Westerlind Ingrid E Lundberg Karin Hellgren Ralf Kuja-Halkola Marie Holmqvist

Published in: Annals of the rheumatic diseases (2021)

IIM has a familial component with a risk of aggregation among first-degree relatives and a heritability of about 20%. This information is of importance for future aetiological studies and in clinical counselling.

Keyphrases

early onset
oxidative stress
current status
case control
cross sectional
smoking cessation
healthcare
human immunodeficiency virus
genome wide association