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Association of Cullin1 haplotype variants with rheumatoid arthritis and response to methotrexate.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Sept 2011
Negi Sapna, Kumar Ashok, Thelma B K, Juyal Ramesh C
Abstract excerpt
Aberrations in ubiquitin pathway have been implicated in many diseases and drug response. In a previous study on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Japanese population, significant association of Cullin1 gene (CUL1), an ubiquitin E3 ligase, was observed. CUL1 also mediates degradation of IκBα and p27, levels of which has been associated with RA etiology and drug response, respectively. We carried out a replication...
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