Signal transducer and activator of transcription 4 gene polymorphisms associated with rheumatoid arthritis in Northwestern Chinese Han population

Life Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 171-175

  Liang, Ya Ling ^a   Wu, Hua ^a   Li, Pei Qiang ^a   Xie, Xiao Dong ^a   Shen, Xi ^a   Yang, Xiao Qing ^b   Cheng, Xuan ^c   Liang, Li ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Affiliated Lanzhou Petrochemical Hospital   (China)

^c Gansu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

Case control study; Rheumatoid arthritis; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; STAT4

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 80051800225     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: 18790631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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