Examination of the possible role of biologically relevant genes around FBN1 in systemic sclerosis in the Choctaw population [1]

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3295-3296

  Tan, Filemon K ^b   Tercero, Gina M ^b   Arnett, Frank C ^b   Wang, Ning ^a   Chakraborty, Ranajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLIN;

AMERICAN INDIAN; CHROMOSOME 15; FBN1 GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 7; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FURIN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OKLAHOMA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; THROMBOSPONDIN 1;

EID: 0242495083     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.11280     Document Type: Letter

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