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Association of a BMP5 microsatellite with knee osteoarthritis: case-control study.
Arthritis research & therapy - 27 Nov 2012
Rodriguez-Fontenla Cristina, Carr Andrew, Gomez-Reino Juan J, Tsezou Aspasia, Loughlin John, Gonzalez Antonio
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INTRODUCTION: We aimed to explore the involvement of a multiallelic functional polymorphism in knee osteoarthritis (OA) susceptibility as a prototype of possible genetic factors escaping GWAS detection. METHODS: OA patients and controls from three European populations (Greece, Spain and the UK) adding up to 1003 patients (716 women, 287 men) that had undergone total knee joint replacement (TKR) due to severe...
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