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Genetic characterization and fine mapping of susceptibility loci for sarcoidosis in African Americans on chromosome 5.
Human genetics - 1 Oct 2006
Gray-McGuire Courtney, Sinha Ritwik, Iyengar Sudha, Millard Christopher, Rybicki Benjamin A, Elston Robert C, Iannuzzi Michael C
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Sarcoidosis, a systemic granulomatous disease, likely results from both environmental agents and genetic susceptibility. Sarcoidosis is more prevalent in women and, in the United States, African Americans are both more commonly and more severely affected than Caucasians. We report a follow up of the first genome scan for sarcoidosis susceptibility genes in African Americans. Both the genome scan and the present...
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