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SUBMITTER: Valdes AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2427208 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valdes Ana M AM Loughlin John J Timms Kirsten M KM van Meurs Joyce J B JJ Southam Lorraine L Wilson Scott G SG Doherty Sally S Lories Rik J RJ Luyten Frank P FP Gutin Alexander A Abkevich Victor V Ge Dongliang D Hofman Albert A Uitterlinden André G AG Hart Deborah J DJ Zhang Feng F Zhai Guangju G Egli Rainer J RJ Doherty Michael M Lanchbury Jerry J Spector Tim D TD
American journal of human genetics 20080508 6
Osteoarthritis (OA), the most prevalent form of arthritis in the elderly, is characterized by the degradation of articular cartilage and has a strong genetic component. Our aim was to identify genetic variants involved in risk of knee OA in women. A pooled genome-wide association scan with the Illumina550 Duo array was performed in 255 controls and 387 cases. Twenty-eight variants with p < 1 x 10(-5) were estimated to have probabilities of being false positives <or=0.5 and were genotyped individ ...[more]