1. The AIRE gene and susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis in the Spanish population
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Belén Torres, María Francisca González-Escribano, Alicia García, Antonio Núñez-Roldán, José Raúl García-Lozano, and M.A. Montes-Cano
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Medicine(all) ,Veterinary medicine ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,lcsh:Medicine ,Genome-wide association study ,General Medicine ,Japanese population ,medicine.disease ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Negative selection ,Thymocyte ,Antigen ,Rheumatoid arthritis ,Poster Presentation ,Immunology ,medicine ,Transcriptional regulation ,business ,Gene - Abstract
AIRE is a transcriptional regulator that plays a functional role in thymocyte education and negative selection by controlling the expression of peripheral antigens in thymus. This gene has been associated with the susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a recent GWAS carried out in the Japanese population; nevertheless, no association has been described in Caucasian populations.
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- 2011
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