Genome-wide association study for acute otitis media in children identifies FNDC1 as disease contributing gene

Genome-wide association study for acute otitis media in children identifies FNDC1 as disease contributing gene

Acute otitis media (AOM) is an acute infection of middle ear mucosa and among the most common pediatric diseases. Here, the authors performed a genome-wide association study to link a variant in the FNDC1 locus on 6q25.3 and differential methylation status of the FNDC1gene with predisposition to AOM...

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Main Authors: Gijs van Ingen, Jin Li, André Goedegebure, Rahul Pandey, Yun Rose Li, Michael E. March, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Marina Bakay, Frank D. Mentch, Kelly Thomas, Zhi Wei, Xiao Chang, Heather S. Hain, André G. Uitterlinden, Henriette A. Moll, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Fernando Rivadeneira, Hein Raat, Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong, Patrick M. Sleiman, Marc P. van der Schroeff, Hakon Hakonarson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12792

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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12792

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