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ANKH variants associated with ankylosing spondylitis: gender differences.
Arthritis research & therapy - 1 Jan 2005
Tsui Hing Wo, Inman Robert D, Paterson Andrew D, Reveille John D, Tsui Florence W L
Abstract excerpt
The ank (progressive ankylosis) mutant mouse, which has a nonsense mutation in exon 12 of the inorganic pyrophosphate regulator gene (ank), exhibits aberrant joint ankylosis similar to human ankylosing spondylitis (AS). We previously performed family-based association analyses of 124 Caucasian AS families and showed that novel genetic markers in the 5' flanking region of ANKH (the human homolog of the murine ank...
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