Genome-wide association study of African and European Americans implicates multiple shared and ethnic specific loci in sarcoidosis susceptibility.

Genome-wide association study of African and European Americans implicates multiple shared and ethnic specific loci in sarcoidosis susceptibility.

Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas in affected organs. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of this disease have been conducted only in European population. We present the first sarcoidosis GWAS in African Americans (AAs, 818 cases and 1,08...

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Main Authors: Indra Adrianto, Chee Paul Lin, Jessica J Hale, Albert M Levin, Indrani Datta, Ryan Parker, Adam Adler, Jennifer A Kelly, Kenneth M Kaufman, Christopher J Lessard, Kathy L Moser, Robert P Kimberly, John B Harley, Michael C Iannuzzi, Benjamin A Rybicki, Courtney G Montgomery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3428296?pdf=render

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