Association between a single-nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter of the human interleukin-3 gene and rheumatoid arthritis in Japanese patients, and maximum-likelihood estimation of combinatorial effect that two genetic loci have on susceptibility to the disease

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 674-685

  Yamada, Ryo ^a   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^a   Unoki, Motoko ^b   Nagai, Tatsuo ^a   Sawada, Tetsuji ^a   Ohnishi, Yozo ^a   Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko ^b   Yukioka, Masao ^c   Maeda, Akira ^c   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Tateishi, Hiroomi ^e   Ochi, Takahiro ^d   Nakamura, Yusuke ^b   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c YUKIOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e Hyogo College of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DNA; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 3; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 3;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0035094852     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318789     Document Type: Article

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