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SUBMITTER: McDougal KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2877485 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McDougal Kathryn E KE Fallin M Daniele MD Moller David R DR Song Zhimin Z Cutler David J DJ Steiner Lori L LL Cutting Garry R GR
The Journal of investigative dermatology 20090219 8
Sarcoidosis is a multi-system inflammatory disease with organ involvement that varies by race and sex. Family studies indicate that genes play a role in the etiology and extent of organ involvement in sarcoidosis. In this study, we evaluated whether 25 variants distributed in 19 genes with a known role in inflammation were associated with erythema nodosum status in 659 sarcoidosis patients and 658 controls from A Case-Control Etiologic Study of Sarcoidosis (ACCESS). We found no association with ...[more]