Association of variants at 1q32 and STAT3 with ankylosing spondylitis suggests genetic overlap with Crohn's disease.

Association of variants at 1q32 and STAT3 with ankylosing spondylitis suggests genetic overlap with Crohn's disease.

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common inflammatory arthritic condition. Overt inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occurs in about 10% of AS patients, and in addition 70% of AS cases may have subclinical terminal ileitis. Spondyloarthritis is also common in IBD patients. We therefore tested Crohn'...

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Main Authors: Patrick Danoy, Karena Pryce, Johanna Hadler, Linda A Bradbury, Claire Farrar, Jennifer Pointon, Australo-Anglo-American Spondyloarthritis Consortium, Michael Ward, Michael Weisman, John D Reveille, B Paul Wordsworth, Millicent A Stone, Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada, Walter P Maksymowych, Proton Rahman, Dafna Gladman, Robert D Inman, Matthew A Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2996314?pdf=render

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