A Genome-Wide Association Study Identified AFF1 as a Susceptibility Locus for Systemic Lupus Eyrthematosus in Japanese

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that causes multiple organ damage. Although recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have contributed to discovery of SLE susceptibility genes, few studies has been performed in Asian populations. Here, we report a GWAS for SLE examini...

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Main Authors: Okada, Yukinori, Shimane, Kenichi, Kochi, Yuta, Tahira, Tomoko, Suzuki, Akari, Higasa, Koichiro, Takahashi, Atsushi, Horita, Tetsuya, Atsumi, Tatsuya, Ishii, Tomonori, Okamoto, Akiko, Fujio, Keishi, Hirakata, Michito, Amano, Hirofumi, Kondo, Yuya, Ito, Satoshi, Takada, Kazuki, Mimori, Akio, Saito, Kazuyoshi, Kamachi, Makoto, Kawaguchi, Yasushi, Ikari, Katsunori, Mohammed, Osman Wael, Matsuda, Koichi, Terao, Chikashi, Ohmura, Koichiro, Myouzen, Keiko, Hosono, Naoya, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, Nishimoto, Norihiro, Mimori, Tsuneyo, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Tanaka, Yoshiya, Sumida, Takayuki, Yamanaka, Hisashi, Takasaki, Yoshinari, Koike, Takao, Horiuchi, Takahiko, Hayashi, Kenshi, Kubo, Michiaki, Kamatani, Naoyuki, Yamada, Ryo, Nakamura, Yusuke, Yamamoto, Kazuhiko
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3266877/