Association analysis of the skin barrier gene cystatin A at the PSORS5 locus in psoriatic patients: Evidence for interaction between PSORS1 and PSORS5

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1002-1009

  Vasilopoulos, Yiannis ^a   Walters, Kevin ^a   Cork, Michael J ^a   Duff, Gordon W ^a   Sagoo, Gurdeep S ^b   Tazi Ahnini, Rachid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Public Health Genetics Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN PSORS1; PROTEIN PSORS5; STEFIN A; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWEAT; TREND STUDY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CYSTATINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PSORIASIS;

EID: 48249089671     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.40     Document Type: Article

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