Genome-wide association analyses identify 13 new susceptibility loci for generalized vitiligo

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 676-680

  Jin, Ying ^a,b   Birlea, Stanca A ^a   Fain, Pamela R ^a,b   Ferrara, Tracey M ^a   Ben, Songtao ^a   Riccardi, Sheri L ^a   Cole, Joanne B ^a   Gowan, Katherine ^a   Holland, Paulene J ^a   Bennett, Dorothy C ^c   Luiten, Rosalie M ^d   Wolkerstorfer, Albert ^d   Van Der Veen, J P Wietze ^d   Hartmann, Anke ^e   Eichner, Saskia ^e   Schuler, Gerold ^e   Van Geel, Nanja ^f   Lambert, Jo ^f   Kemp, E Helen ^g   Gawkrodger, David J ^h   Weetman, Anthony P ^g   Taïeb, Alain ⁱ   Jouary, Thomas ⁱ   Ezzedine, Khaled ⁱ   Wallace, Margaret R ^j   McCormack, Wayne T ^j   Picardo, Mauro ^k   Leone, Giovanni ^k   Overbeck, Andreas ^l   Silverberg, Nanette B ^m,n   Spritz, Richard A ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^h ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^l Lumiderm   (Spain)

^m St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center ^*  (United States)

ⁿ ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACH2 GENE; CASP7 GENE; CD44 GENE; CD80 GENE; CLNK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE COLOR; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAIR COLOR; HERC2 GENE; HUMAN; IFIH1 GENE; IKZF4 GENE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MC1R GENE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; OCA2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SH2B3 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN COLOR; SLA GENE; TOB2 GENE; TYR GENE; VITILIGO;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; EYE COLOR; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VITILIGO;

EID: 84861583442     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2272     Document Type: Article

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