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Fine mapping in the MHC region accounts for 18% additional genetic risk for celiac disease.
Nature genetics - 1 Jun 2015
Gutierrez-Achury Javier, Zhernakova Alexandra, Pulit Sara L, Trynka Gosia, Hunt Karen A, Romanos Jihane, Raychaudhuri Soumya, van Heel David A, Wijmenga Cisca, de Bakker Paul I W
Abstract excerpt
Although dietary gluten is the trigger for celiac disease, risk is strongly influenced by genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region. We fine mapped the MHC association signal to identify additional risk factors independent of the HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 alleles and observed five new associations that account for 18% of the genetic risk. Taking these new loci together with the 57 known...
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