Nozomi Yokoyama, Aya Kawasaki, Takashi Matsushita, Hiroshi Furukawa, Yuya Kondo, Fumio Hirano, Ken-Ei Sada, Isao Matsumoto, Makio Kusaoi, Hirofumi Amano, Shouhei Nagaoka, Keigo Setoguchi, Tatsuo Nagai, Kota Shimada, Shoji Sugii, Atsushi Hashimoto, Toshihiro Matsui, Akira Okamoto, Noriyuki Chiba, Eiichi Suematsu, Shigeru Ohno, Masao Katayama, Kiyoshi Migita, Hajime Kono, Minoru Hasegawa, Shigeto Kobayashi, Hidehiro Yamada, Kenji Nagasaka, Takahiko Sugihara, Kunihiro Yamagata, Shoichi Ozaki, Naoto Tamura, Yoshinari Takasaki, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Hirofumi Makino, Yoshihiro Arimura, Masayoshi Harigai, Shinichi Sato, Takayuki Sumida, Shigeto Tohma, Kazuhiko Takehara, Naoyuki Tsuchiya
Genome-wide association studies of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in Chinese and Korean populations demonstrated strong association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in the GTF2I-NCF1 region, rs73366469 (GTF2I), rs117026326 (GTF2I), rs80346167(GTF2IRD1) and rs201802880 (NCF1). This region has also been associated with susceptibility to Sjögren syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis; however, association studies with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) have not been reported...
November 8, 2019: Scientific Reports