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The fibromyalgia family study: a genome-wide linkage scan study.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Apr 2013
Arnold Lesley M, Fan Jinbo, Russell I Jon, Yunus Muhammad B, Khan Muhammad Asim, Kushner Irving, Olson Jane M, Iyengar Sudha K
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OBJECTIVE: Familial aggregation of fibromyalgia has been increasingly recognized. The goal of this study was to conduct a genome-wide linkage scan to identify susceptibility loci for fibromyalgia. METHODS: We genotyped members of 116 families from the Fibromyalgia Family Study and performed a model-free genome-wide linkage analysis of fibromyalgia with 341 microsatellite markers, using the Haseman-Elston...
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