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SUBMITTER: Chou CT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1798239 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chou C-T CT Timms A E AE Wei J C C JC Tsai W C WC Wordsworth B P BP Brown M A MA
Annals of the rheumatic diseases 20051216 8
<h4>Objective</h4>To test the association of interleukin 1 (IL1) gene family members with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), previously reported in Europid subjects, in an ethnically remote population.<h4>Methods</h4>200 Taiwanese Chinese AS patients and 200 ethnically matched healthy controls were genotyped for five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the IL1RN.VNTR, markers previously associated with AS. Allele, genotype, and haplotype frequencies were compared between cases and controls.<h4> ...[more]