Association study confirmed susceptibility loci with keloid in the Chinese Han population.

Keloid is benign fibroproliferative dermal tumors with unknown etiology. Recently, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in Japanese population has identified 3 susceptibility loci (rs873549 at 1q41, rs940187 and rs1511412 at 3q22.3, rs8032158 at 15p21.3) for keloid. In order to examine whether the...

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Main Authors: Fei Zhu, Baoyu Wu, Ping Li, Jianbo Wang, Huayang Tang, Ye Liu, Xianbo Zuo, Hui Cheng, Yantao Ding, Wen Wang, Yujuan Zhai, Fangfang Qian, Wenju Wang, Xiangfeng Yuan, Jing Wang, Weiwei Ha, Junsheng Hou, Fusheng Zhou, Yin Wang, Jinping Gao, Yujun Sheng, Liangdan Sun, Jianjun Liu, Sen Yang, Xuejun Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3646817?pdf=render