Identification of Susceptibility Loci in IL6, RPS9/LILRB3, and an Intergenic Locus on Chromosome 21q22 in Takayasu Arteritis in a Genome-Wide Association Study


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Renauer P. A., Saruhan-Direskeneli G., Coit P., Adler A., AKSU K., KESER G., ...More

ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY, vol.67, no.5, pp.1361-1368, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

Objective. Takayasu arteritis is a rare large vessel vasculitis with incompletely understood etiology. This study was undertaken to perform the first unbiased genome-wide association analysis of Takayasu arteritis.