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Lack of association between Tenascin-C gene and spondyloarthritis.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Nov 2008
Zinovieva E, Lebrun N, Letourneur F, Laurent F-X, Said-Nahal R, Chiocchia G, Breban M
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OBJECTIVES: We previously identified a new susceptibility region linked to SpA in 9q31-34. Tenascin-C (TNC) appears as one of the best positional and functional candidate genes lying within this SPA2 locus. The objectives of the present study were to identify TNC polymorphisms, and to examine their putative association with SpA. METHODS: We first performed variants screening in 20 independent SpA patients from...
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