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Elucidating the chromosome 9 association with AS; CARD9 is a candidate gene.
Genes and immunity - 1 Sept 2010
Pointon J J, Harvey D, Karaderi T, Appleton L H, Farrar C, Stone M A, Sturrock R D, Brown M A, Wordsworth B P
Abstract excerpt
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is polygenic with contributions from the immunologically relevant genes HLA-B*27, ERAP1 and IL23R. A recent genome-wide association screen (GWAS) identified associations (P approximately 0.005) with the non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs), rs4077515 and rs3812571, in caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) and small nuclear RNA-activating complex...
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