Possible single-nucleotide polymorphism loci associated with systemic sclerosis susceptibility: A genetic association study in a Chinese Han population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Shu, Chang ^a   Du, Wei ^a   Mao, Xiaofei ^a   Li, Yun ^a   Zhu, Qin ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Wu, Nan ^a   Mao, Xuming ^b   Jin, Hongzhong ^a   Sun, Qiuning ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHOB GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; FAM167A-BLK PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FAM167A BLK GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAN CHINESE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROMOTER REGION; RHOB GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RHOB GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84915737222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113197     Document Type: Article

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