Replication of putative candidate-gene associations with rheumatoid arthritis in >4,000 samples from North America and Sweden: Association of susceptibility with PTPN22, CTLA4, and PADI4

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1044-1060

  Plenge, Robert M ^b,d   Padyukov, Leonid ^f   Remmers, Elaine F ^g   Purcell, Shaun ^e   Lee, Annette T ^h   Karlson, Elizabeth W ^d   Wolfe, Frederick ⁱ   Kastner, Daniel L ^g   Alfredsson, Lars ^f   Altshuler, David ^a,c,e   Gregersen, Peter K ^h   Klareskog, Lars ^f   Rioux, John D ^b,e,j  

^a Medical and Population Genetics Program   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^h Institute for Medical Research at North Shore LIJ   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL DATA BANK FOR RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (United States)

^j MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; GENE PRODUCT; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 3; INTERLEUKIN 4; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; PROTEIN PAD14; PROTEIN SLC22A4; PROTEIN TNFRSF1B; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; SUMO 4 PROTEIN; SUMO PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; META ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX RATIO; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 28144441356     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498651     Document Type: Article

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