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SUBMITTER: Qiao B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2795906 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qiao Bo B Huang Chien Hsun CH Cong Lei L Xie Jun J Lo Shaw-Hwa SH Zheng Tian T
BMC proceedings 20091215
The genes PTPN22 and HLA-DRB1 have been found by a number of studies to confer an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which indicates that both genes play an important role in RA etiology. It is believed that they not only have strong association with RA individually, but also interact with other related genes that have not been found to have predisposing RA mutations. In this paper, we conduct genome-wide searches for RA-associated gene-gene interactions that involve PTPN22 or HLA-DRB ...[more]