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High-density genotyping of immune loci in Kawasaki disease and IVIG treatment response in European-American case-parent trio study.
Genes and immunity - 1 Dec 2014
Shendre A, Wiener H W, Zhi D, Vazquez A I, Portman M A, Shrestha S
Abstract excerpt
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a diffuse and acute small-vessel vasculitis observed in children, and has genetic and autoimmune components. We genotyped 112 case-parent trios of European decent (confirmed by ancestry informative markers) using the immunoChip array, and performed association analyses with susceptibility to KD and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) non-response. KD susceptibility was assessed using the...
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