Motohisa Yamamoto

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GWAS for systemic sclerosis identifies six novel susceptibility loci including one in the Fcγ receptor region - Nature Communications

Jan 31, 2024 | nature.com | Yuki Ishikawa |Nao Tanaka |Mitsuteru Akahoshi |Takashi Matsushita |Akira Oka |Motohisa Yamamoto | +15 more

AbstractHere we report the largest Asian genome-wide association study (GWAS) for systemic sclerosis performed to date, based on data from Japanese subjects and comprising of 1428 cases and 112,599 controls. The lead SNP is in the FCGR/FCRL region, which shows a penetrating association in the Asian population, while a complete linkage disequilibrium SNP, rs10917688, is found in a cis-regulatory element for IRF8.

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