Follistatin-related protein gene (FRP) is expressed in the synovial tissues of rheumatoid arthritis, but its polymorphisms are not associated with genetic susceptibility

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 707-712

  Ehara, Yukikazu ^a   Sakurai, Daisuke ^a   Tsuchiya, Naoyuki ^a   Nakano, Kazuhisa ^b   Tanaka, Yoshiya ^b   Yamaguchi, Akihiro ^a   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Genetics; Polymorphism; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovium

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLISTATIN RELATED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNOVIOCYTE; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN-RELATED PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 11044233758     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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