Common variants in the HLA-DRB1-HLA-DQA1 HLA class II region are associated with susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 208-213

  Fakiola, Michaela ^a   Strange, Amy ^b   Cordell, Heather J ^c   Miller, E Nancy ^a   Pirinen, Matti ^b   Su, Zhan ^b   Mishra, Anshuman ^d   Mehrotra, Sanjana ^d   Monteiro, Gloria R ^e   Band, Gavin ^b   Bellenguez, Céline ^b   Dronov, Serge ^f   Edkins, Sarah ^f   Freeman, Colin ^b   Giannoulatou, Eleni ^b   Gray, Emma ^f   Hunt, Sarah E ^f   Lacerda, Henio G ^e   Langford, Cordelia ^f   Pearson, Richard ^b   Pontes, Núbia N ^e   Rai, Madhukar ^d   Singh, Shri P ^d   Smith, Linda ^g   Sousa, Olivia ^e   Vukcevic, Damjan ^b   Bramon, Elvira ^h   Brown, Matthew A ⁱ   Casas, Juan P ^j   Corvin, Aiden ^k   Duncanson, Audrey ^l   Jankowski, Janusz ^m   Markus, Hugh S ⁿ   Mathew, Christopher G ^o   Palmer, Colin N A ^p   Plomin, Robert ^h   Rautanen, Anna ^b   Sawcer, Stephen J ^q   Trembath, Richard C ^r   Viswanathan, Ananth C ^s,t   Wood, Nicholas W ^u   Wilson, Mary E ^v,w   Deloukas, Panos ^f   Peltonen, Leena ^f   Christiansen, Frank ^g   Witt, Campbell ^g   Jeronimo, Selma M B ^e   Sundar, Shyam ^d   Spencer, Chris C A ^b   Blackwell, Jenefer M ^a,x   Donnelly, Peter ^b,m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^j LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^k TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^l WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^o GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^r CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^s Northwick Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^w VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCL1 CHEMOKINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR1; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR2; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

BRAZIL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-DQ ALPHA-CHAINS; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LINEAR MODELS; ODDS RATIO; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84873088400     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2518     Document Type: Article

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