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Genome-wide association study of African and European Americans implicates multiple shared and ethnic specific loci in sarcoidosis susceptibility.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Adrianto Indra, Lin Chee Paul, Hale Jessica J, Levin Albert M, Datta Indrani, Parker Ryan, Adler Adam, Kelly Jennifer A, Kaufman Kenneth M, Lessard Christopher J, Moser Kathy L, Kimberly Robert P, Harley John B, Iannuzzi Michael C, Rybicki Benjamin A, Montgomery Courtney G
Abstract excerpt
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas in affected organs. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of this disease have been conducted only in European population. We present the first sarcoidosis GWAS in African Americans (AAs, 818 cases and 1,088 related controls) followed by replication in independent sets of AAs (455 cases and 557 controls) and European...
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