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Association study of COL9A2 with lumbar disc disease in the Japanese population.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Seki Shoji, Kawaguchi Yoshiharu, Mori Masaki, Mio Futoshi, Chiba Kazuhiro, Mikami Yasuo, Tsunoda Tatsuhiko, Kubo Toshikazu, Toyama Yoshiaki, Kimura Tomoatsu, Ikegawa Shiro
Abstract excerpt
Lumbar disc disease (LDD) is a common musculo-skeletal disease with strong genetic determinants. In a Finnish population, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) causing an amino-acid substitution (Trp2 allele) in COL9A2, which encodes the alpha2 (IX) chain of type IX collagen, has been reported to associate with LDD. However, replication studies in different populations have produced controversial results. To...
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