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Only one independent genetic association with rheumatoid arthritis within the KIAA1109-TENR-IL2-IL21 locus in Caucasian sample sets: confirmation of association of rs6822844 with rheumatoid arthritis at a genome-wide level of significance.
Arthritis research & therapy - 1 Jan 2010
Hollis-Moffatt Jade E, Chen-Xu Michael, Topless Ruth, Dalbeth Nicola, Gow Peter J, Harrison Andrew A, Highton John, Jones Peter B B, Nissen Michael, Smith Malcolm D, van Rij Andre, Jones Gregory T, Stamp Lisa K, Merriman Tony R
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INTRODUCTION: The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs6822844 within the KIAA1109-TENR-IL2-IL21 gene cluster has been associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Other variants within this cluster, including rs17388568 that is not in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs6822844, and rs907715 that...
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