Associations between autoimmune thyroid disease prognosis and functional polymorphisms of susceptibility genes, CTLA4, PTPN22, CD40, FCRL3, and ZFAT, previously revealed in genome-wide association studies

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1243-1252

  Inoue, Naoya ^a   Watanabe, Mikio ^a   Yamada, Hiroya ^a   Takemura, Kazuya ^a   Hayashi, Fumiaki ^a   Yamakawa, Noriko ^a   Akahane, Maiko ^a   Shimizuishi, Yu ^a   Hidaka, Yoh ^a   Iwatani, Yoshinori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graves' disease; GWAS; Hashimoto's disease; intractability; polymorphism; severity

Indexed keywords

CD40 ANTIGEN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; CTLA4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FCRL3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; PTPN22 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZFAT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CD40 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 4 GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FC RECEPTOR LIKE 3 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE NON RECEPTOR 22 GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ZINC FINGER GENE IN AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY REGION GENE; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, CD40; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CTLA-4 ANTIGEN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE, NON-RECEPTOR TYPE 22; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84878242161     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: 15732592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10875-012-9721-0     Document Type: Article

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