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LBH Gene Transcription Regulation by the Interplay of an Enhancer Risk Allele and DNA Methylation in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) - 1 Nov 2016
Hammaker Deepa, Whitaker John W, Maeshima Keisuke, Boyle David L, Ekwall Anna-Karin H, Wang Wei, Firestein Gary S
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OBJECTIVE: To identify nonobvious therapeutic targets for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we performed an integrative analysis incorporating multiple "omics" data and the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) database for potential regulatory regions. This analysis identified the limb bud and heart development (LBH) gene, which has risk alleles associated with RA/celiac disease and lupus, and can regulate cell...
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