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Male-specific association of the FCGR2A His167Arg polymorphism with Kawasaki disease.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Kwon Young-Chang, Kim Jae-Jung, Yun Sin Weon, Yu Jeong Jin, Yoon Kyung Lim, Lee Kyung-Yil, Kil Hong-Ryang, Kim Gi Beom, Han Myung-Ki, Song Min Seob, Lee Hyoung Doo, Ha Kee-Soo, Sohn Sejung, Ebata Ryota, Hamada Hiromichi, Suzuki Hiroyuki, Ito Kaoru, Onouchi Yoshihiro, Hong Young Mi, Jang Gi Young, Lee Jong-Keuk
Abstract excerpt
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis that can potentially cause coronary artery aneurysms in some children. KD occurs approximately 1.5 times more frequently in males than in females. To identify sex-specific genetic variants that are involved in KD pathogenesis in children, we performed a sex-stratified genome-wide association study (GWAS), using the Illumina HumanOmni1-Quad BeadChip data (249...
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