The genetics of hyperuricaemia and gout

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 610-621

  Reginato, Anthony M ^a   Mount, David B ^b   Yang, Irene ^a   Choi, Hyon K ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; URATE; URIC ACID;

ABCG2 GENE; ASIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EUROPE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOUT; HLA B GENE; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPOURICEMIA; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; KIDNEY TUBULE EXCRETION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLC22A112 GENE; SLC2A9 GENE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ALLOPURINOL; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; HYPERURICEMIA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; URIC ACID;

EID: 84867083483     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.144     Document Type: Review

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