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Novel rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility locus at 22q12 identified in an extended UK genome-wide association study.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2014
Orozco Gisela, Viatte Sebastien, Bowes John, Martin Paul, Wilson Anthony G, Morgan Ann W, Steer Sophia, Wordsworth Paul, Hocking Lynne J, Barton Anne, Worthington Jane, Eyre Stephen
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OBJECTIVE: The number of confirmed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) loci currently stands at 32, but many lines of evidence indicate that expansion of existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) enhances the power to detect additional loci. This study was undertaken to extend our previous RA GWAS in a UK cohort, adding more independent RA cases and healthy controls, with the aim of detecting novel association...
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