Lumbar disc disease shows linkage to chromosome 19 overlapping with a QTL for hand OA

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-119

  Williams, Frances M K ^a   Kato, B S ^a   Livshits, G ^b   Sambrook, P N ^c   Spector, T D ^a   MacGregor, A J ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Institute of Bone and Joint Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGLINEAR MODEL; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR DISK DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOD SCORE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SPINAL DISEASES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 37749013643     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.073262     Document Type: Article

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