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RAvariome: a genetic risk variants database for rheumatoid arthritis based on assessment of reproducibility between or within human populations.
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation - 1 Jan 2013
Nagai Yoko, Imanishi Tadashi
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common autoimmune inflammatory disease of the joints and is caused by both genetic and environmental factors. In the past six years, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified many risk variants associated with RA. However, not all associations reported from GWASs are reproduced when tested in follow-up studies. To establish a reliable set of RA risk variants, we...
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