A doctoral thesis with title (on the association of Morphology for some Genes with rheumatoid arthritis patients in Basrah) has been examined at the College of Science. The postgraduate student Alaa Abdul-Hussein Saleh has passed the viva successfully. The number of chapters in the thesis are four, the study aimed to determine the polymorphism of the VDR Gene and its association with rheumatoid arthritis patients in Basrah.