Examining the overlap between genome-wide rare variant association signals and linkage peaks in rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1522-1526

  Eyre, S ^a   Ke, X ^a   Lawrence, R ^b,c   Bowes, J ^a   Panoutsopoulou, K ^b   Barton, A ^a   Thomson, W ^a   Worthington, J ^a   Zeggini, E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT4 GENE;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958046975     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.30315     Document Type: Article

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