Hirotaka Matsuo, Ken Yamamoto, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Akiyoshi Nakayama, Masayuki Sakiyama, Toshinori Chiba, Atsushi Takahashi, Takahiro Nakamura, Hiroshi Nakashima, Yuzo Takada, Inaho Danjoh, Seiko Shimizu, Junko Abe, Yusuke Kawamura, Sho Terashige, Hiraku Ogata, Seishiro Tatsukawa, Guang Yin, Rieko Okada, Emi Morita, Mariko Naito, Atsumi Tokumasu, Hiroyuki Onoue, Keiichi Iwaya, Toshimitsu Ito, Tappei Takada, Katsuhisa Inoue, Yukio Kato, Yukio Nakamura, Yutaka Sakurai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshikatsu Kanai, Tatsuo Hosoya, Nobuyuki Hamajima, Ituro Inoue, Michiaki Kubo, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Hiroshi Ooyama, Toru Shimizu, Nariyoshi Shinomiya
OBJECTIVE: Gout, caused by hyperuricaemia, is a multifactorial disease. Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of gout have been reported, they included self-reported gout cases in which clinical information was insufficient. Therefore, the relationship between genetic variation and clinical subtypes of gout remains unclear. Here, we first performed a GWAS of clinically defined gout cases only. METHODS: A GWAS was conducted with 945 patients with clinically defined gout and 1213 controls in a Japanese male population, followed by replication study of 1048 clinically defined cases and 1334 controls...
April 2016: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases