1. Rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility loci at chromosomes 10p15, 12q13 and 22q13
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Eleftheria Zeggini, Michael Weedon, Karl Gaffney, Anne Hinks, Wendy Thomson, Patricia Munroe, Stephen Eyre, Andrew Hattersley, Steven Young-Min, Elizabeth Hensor, Nadira Yusupovna Yuldasheva, Simon Potter, Philip Conaghan, Gerome Breen, Hana Lango Allen, Jane Worthington, Ann Morgan, Professor David Dunger, Pille Harrison, Iain McInnes, Charlie Lees, Anne Barton, Jon Packham, Lynne J Hocking, Kimme Hyrich, John Bowes, Miles Parkes, Anna Dominiczak, and Cecilia Lindgren
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030203 arthritis & rheumatology ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,Case-control study ,Chromosome ,Arthritis ,Genome-wide association study ,Locus (genetics) ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Biology ,medicine.disease ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Genetic linkage ,Rheumatoid arthritis ,Immunology ,medicine ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
The WTCCC study identified 49 SNPs putatively associated with rheumatoid arthritis at P = 1 x 10(-4) - 1 x 10(-5) (tier 3). Here we show that three of these SNPs, mapping to chromosome 10p15 (rs4750316), 12q13 (rs1678542) and 22q13 (rs3218253), are also associated (trend P = 4 x 10(-5), P = 4 x 10(-4) and P = 4 x 10(-4), respectively) in a validation study of 4,106 individuals with rheumatoid arthritis and an expanded reference group of 11,238 subjects, confirming them as true susceptibility loci in individuals of European ancestry.
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- 2008
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