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Association of fibrillin 1 single-nucleotide polymorphism haplotypes with systemic sclerosis in Choctaw and Japanese populations.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Apr 2001
Tan F K, Wang N, Kuwana M, Chakraborty R, Bona C A, Milewicz D M, Arnett F C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Previously, we demonstrated with the use of microsatellite markers that a 2-cM haplotype on chromosome 15q containing the fibrillin 1 gene (FBN1) was strongly associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in the Choctaw, a population with high SSc prevalence. In this study, all 69 known FBN1 exons were sequenced to ascertain the presence of changes that might show associations with SSc in the Choctaw and...
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