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PLOS ONE
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009723
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Spanish Health Ministry with participation of FEDER (Fondo Europeo para el Desarrollo Regional)
- Foundation Mutua Madrile (Madrid)
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disease that has a definite genetic component. Only a few OA susceptibility genes that have definite functional evidence and replication of association have been reported, however. Through a genome-wide association study and a replication using a total of similar to 4,800 Japanese subjects, we identified two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs7775228 and rs10947262) associated with susceptibility to knee OA. The two SNPs were in a region containing HLA class II/III genes and their association reached genome-wide significance (combined P = 2.43x10(-8) for rs7775228 and 6.73x10(-8) for rs10947262). Our results suggest that immunologic mechanism is implicated in the etiology of OA.
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