A Multinational Arab Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies New Genetic Associations for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 976-985

  Saxena, Richa ^a,b   Plenge, Robert M ^b,c   Bjonnes, Andrew C ^a,b   Dashti, Hassan S ^a,b   Okada, Yukinori ^d,e   Gad El Haq, Wessam ^f   Hammoudeh, Mohammed ^g   Al Emadi, Samar ^g   Masri, Basel K ^h   Halabi, Hussein ⁱ   Badsha, Humeira ^j   Uthman, Imad W ^k   Margolin, Lauren ^b   Gupta, Namrata ^b   Mahfoud, Ziyad R ^f   Kapiri, Marianthi ^f   Dargham, Soha R ^f   Aranki, Grace ^f   Kazkaz, Layla A ^l   Arayssi, Thurayya ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^g HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^h JORDAN HOSPITAL   (Jordan)

ⁱ KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^j Rheumatologist Neurospinal Hospital   (United Arab Emirates)

^k AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^l Tishreen Hospital   (Syrian Arab Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE, HUMAN; HLA ANTIGEN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SMTNL2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SPACER DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; JORDAN; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QATAR; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; ARAB; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 5; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ARABS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; JORDAN; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QATAR; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 85017342078     PISSN: 23265191     EISSN: 23265205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.40051     Document Type: Article

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