Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies 14 new susceptibility loci for juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

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Published in Nat Genet on April 21, 2013

Authors

Anne Hinks1, Joanna Cobb, Miranda C Marion, Sampath Prahalad, Marc Sudman, John Bowes, Paul Martin, Mary E Comeau, Satria Sajuthi, Robert Andrews, Milton Brown, Wei-Min Chen, Patrick Concannon, Panos Deloukas, Sarah Edkins, Stephen Eyre, Patrick M Gaffney, Stephen L Guthery, Joel M Guthridge, Sarah E Hunt, Judith A James, Mehdi Keddache, Kathy L Moser, Peter A Nigrovic, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Mitchell L Onslow, Carlos D Rosé, Stephen S Rich, Kathryn J A Steel, Edward K Wakeland, Carol A Wallace, Lucy R Wedderburn, Patricia Woo, Boston Children's JIA Registry, British Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology (BSPAR) Study Group, Childhood Arthritis Prospective Study (CAPS), Childhood Arthritis Response to Medication Study (CHARMS), German Society for Pediatric Rheumatology (GKJR), JIA Gene Expression Study, NIAMS JIA Genetic Registry, TREAT Study, United Kingdom Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Genetics Consortium (UKJIAGC), John F Bohnsack, Johannes Peter Haas, David N Glass, Carl D Langefeld, Wendy Thomson, Susan D Thompson

Author Affiliations

1: Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. anne.hinks@manchester.ac.uk

Associated clinical trials:

Trial of Early Aggressive Drug Therapy in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis | NCT00443430

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