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A genome-wide association study reveals evidence of association with sarcoidosis at 6p12.1.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Nov 2011
Hofmann S, Fischer A, Till A, Müller-Quernheim J, Häsler R, Franke A, Gäde K I, Schaarschmidt H, Rosenstiel P, Nebel A, Schürmann M, Nothnagel M, Schreiber S
Abstract excerpt
Sarcoidosis is a complex systemic inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology that is influenced by a variety of genetic and environmental factors. To identify further susceptibility loci for sarcoidosis, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted in 381 patients and 392 control individuals based on Affymetrix 100k GeneChip data. The top 25 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected for...
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