Genetic susceptibility to Keloid scarring: SMAD gene SNP frequencies in Afro-Caribbeans

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 610-613

  Brown, Jason J ^a,b   Ollier, William ^b   Arscott, Guyan ^c   Ke, Xiayi ^b   Lamb, Janine ^b   Day, Philip ^b   Bayat, Ardeshir ^a,b  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Case control association study; Keloid disease; Skin scarring; SMAD, SNP; TGF

Indexed keywords

SMAD PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; KELOID; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RISK; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; KELOID; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD6 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 44949206532     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2007.00654.x     Document Type: Letter

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