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SUBMITTER: Timms AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1182046 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Timms Andrew E AE Crane Alison M AM Sims Anne-Marie AM Cordell Heather J HJ Bradbury Linda A LA Abbott Aaron A Coyne Mark R E MR Beynon Owen O Herzberg Ibi I Duff Gordon W GW Calin Andrei A Cardon Lon R LR Wordsworth B Paul BP Brown Matthew A MA
American journal of human genetics 20040812 4
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common and highly heritable inflammatory arthropathy. Although the gene HLA-B27 is almost essential for the inheritance of the condition, it alone is not sufficient to explain the pattern of familial recurrence of the disease. We have previously demonstrated suggestive linkage of AS to chromosome 2q13, a region containing the interleukin 1 (IL-1) family gene cluster, which includes several strong candidates for involvement in the disease. In the current study, we ...[more]