Genetics of systemic sclerosis: An update

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-21

  Broen, Jasper C A ^a   Coenen, Marieke J H ^a   Radstake, Timothy R D J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Family studies; Genetics; Genome wide association studies; Polymorphisms; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CD226 GENE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAM167A BLK GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; KCNA5 GENE; NLRP1 GENE; NONHUMAN; OX40L GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PTPN22 GENE; PUBLISHING; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAT4 GENE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TNFAIP3 GENE; TREND STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84857056232     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-011-0221-7     Document Type: Article

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