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Genome-wide association study identifies TNFSF13 as a susceptibility gene for IgA in a South Chinese population in smokers.
Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 2012
Yang Chen, Jie Wang, Yanlong Yang, Xuefeng Guo, Aihua Tan, Yong Gao, Zheng Lu, Youjie Zhang, Haiying Zhang, Xue Qin, Min Qin, Linjian Mo, Xiaobo Yang, Yanling Hu, Zengnan Mo
Abstract excerpt
IgA is an important factor in our immune system. There are many diseases associated with it, such as IgA nephropathy, IgA deficiency, and so on. In order to describe the relationship between the genes and the IgA level, we performed a genome-wide association study of serum IgA with 1,999 healthy Chinese men in the first stage and replicated on an independent Chinese sample with 1,496 subjects in the second stage....
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