Sequence and haplotype analysis supports HLA-C as the psoriasis susceptibility 1 gene

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 827-851

  Nair, Rajan P ^a   Stuart, Philip E ^a   Nistor, Ioana ^a   Hiremagalore, Ravi ^a   Chia, Nicholas V C ^a   Jenisch, Stefan ^d   Weichenthal, Michael ^d   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^b   Lim, Henry W ^e   Christophers, Enno ^d   Voorhees, John J ^a   Elder, James T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CDSN GENE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; EXON; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HCG22 GENE; HCG27 GENE; HCR GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; OTF3 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORS1 GENE; PSORS1C3 GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STG GENE; TCF19 GENE; TELOMERE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 33646049742     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503821     Document Type: Article

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