Comprehensive follow-up of the first genome-wide association study of multiple sclerosis identifies KIF21B and TMEM39A as susceptibility loci
McCauley J, Zuvich R, Beecham A, De Jager P, Konidari I, Whitehead P, Aubin C, Ban M, Pobywajlo S, Briskin R, Romano S, Aggarwal N, Piccio L, McArdle W, Strachan D, Evans D, Cross A, Cree B, Rioux J, Barcellos L, Ivinson A, Compston A, Hafler D, Hauser S, Oksenberg J, Sawcer S, Pericak-Vance M, Haines J. Comprehensive follow-up of the first genome-wide association study of multiple sclerosis identifies KIF21B and TMEM39A as susceptibility loci. Human Molecular Genetics 2009, 19: 953-962. PMID: 20007504, PMCID: PMC2816610, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddp542.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesSingle nucleotide polymorphismsAssociation studiesFirst genome-wide association studyGenome-wide association screenNumerous complex diseasesSusceptibility lociInitial genome-wide association studyGenome-wide significanceNovel susceptibility lociComplex genetic diseasesHundreds of associationsSNP hitsGWAS studiesGenetic diseasesLociComplex diseasesOriginal screenTMEM39AInitial associationIndependent data setsReplicationKIF21BInitial replicationScreen
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