Identification of independent susceptible and protective HLA alleles in Japanese autoimmune thyroid disease and their epistasis

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Ueda, Sho ^a   Oryoji, Daisuke ^a   Yamamoto, Ken ^a   Noh, Jaeduk Yoshimura ^c   Okamura, Ken ^b   Noda, Mitsuhiko ^d   Kashiwase, Koichi ^e   Kosuga, Yuka ^a,c   Sekiya, Kenichi ^c   Inoue, Kaori ^c,d   Yamada, Hisakata ^b   Oyamada, Akiko ^b   Nishimura, Yasuharu ^f   Yoshikai, Yasunobu ^b   Ito, Koichi ^a   Sasazuki, Takehiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ITO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Tokyo Red Cross Blood Center   (Japan)

^f KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; JAPAN; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 84893723685     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-2841     Document Type: Article

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