Association of the BTNL2 rs2076530 single nucleotide polymorphism with Graves' disease appears to be secondary to DRB1 exon 2 position β74

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 429-432

  Simmonds, M J ^a   Heward, J M ^a   Barrett, J C ^b   Franklyn, J A ^a   Gough, S C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BTNL2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GRAVES DISEASE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 33748796075     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02586.x     Document Type: Article

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