Association of the interleukin-2 receptor alpha (IL-2Rα)/CD25 gene region with Graves' disease using a multilocus test and tag SNPs

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 508-512

  Brand, Oliver J ^a   Lowe, Christopher E ^b   Heward, Joanne M ^a   Franklyn, Jayne A ^a   Cooper, Jason D ^b   Todd, John A ^b   Gough, Stephen C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES;

EID: 33947274768     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02762.x     Document Type: Article

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