Association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the STAT3 gene with autoimmune thyroid disease in Chinese individuals

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 455-461

  Xiao, Ling ^a,b   Muhali, Fatuma Said ^a,c   Cai, Tian Tian ^a,c   Song, Rong Hua ^a,c   Hu, Renming ^b   Shi, Xiao Hong ^a   Jiang, Wen Juan ^a   Li, Dan Feng ^a   He, Shuang Tao ^a   Xu, Jian ^a   Zhang, Jin An ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autoimmune thyroid disease; Graves' disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3); Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

Indexed keywords

STAT3 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STAT3 GENE;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84886840802     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: 14387948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10142-013-0337-0     Document Type: Article

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