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Examining the overlap between genome-wide rare variant association signals and linkage peaks in rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Jun 2011
Eyre S, Ke X, Lawrence R, Bowes J, Panoutsopoulou K, Barton A, Thomson W, Worthington J, Zeggini E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: With the exception of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and STAT4, no other rheumatoid arthritis (RA) linkage peak has been successfully fine-mapped to date. This apparent failure to identify association under peaks of linkage could be ascribed to the examination of common variation, when linkage is likely to be driven by rare variants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the overlap...
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