Admixture fine-mapping in African Americans implicates XAF1 as a possible sarcoidosis risk gene.

Sarcoidosis is a complex, multi-organ granulomatous disease with a likely genetic component. West African ancestry confers a higher risk for sarcoidosis than European ancestry. Admixture mapping provides the most direct method to locate genes that underlie such ethnic variation in disease risk. We s...

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Main Authors: Albert M Levin, Michael C Iannuzzi, Courtney G Montgomery, Sheri Trudeau, Indrani Datta, Indra Adrianto, Dhananjay A Chitale, Paul McKeigue, Benjamin A Rybicki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3963923?pdf=render