Failure to confirm association between SLC22A4 polymorphism and rheumatoid arthritis in a Japanese population

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2947-2948

  Kuwahara, Mahito ^a   Ikari, Katsunori ^a   Momohara, Shigeki ^a   Nakamura, Takahiro ^a   Hara, Masako ^a   Yamanaka, Hisashi ^a   Tomatsu, Taisuke ^a   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 5Q; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 25444477486     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21244     Document Type: Article

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