Association of the FAM167A-BLK region with systemic sclerosis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 890-895

  Ito, Ikue ^a   Kawaguchi, Yasushi ^b   Kawasaki, Aya ^a   Hasegawa, Minoru ^c   Ohashi, Jun ^a   Kawamoto, Manabu ^b   Fujimoto, Manabu ^c   Takehara, Kazuhiko ^c   Sato, Shinichi ^d   Hara, Masako ^b   Tsuchiya, Naoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FAM167A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 77649114558     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.27303     Document Type: Article

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