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Association between a common immunoglobulin heavy chain allele and rheumatic heart disease risk in Oceania.
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The indigenous populations of the South Pacific experience a high burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Here we report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of RHD susceptibility in 2,852 individuals recruited in eight Oceanian countries. Stratifying by ancestry, we analysed genotyped and imputed variants in Melanesians (607 cases and 1,229 controls) before follow-up of suggestive loci in three further ancestral groups: Polynesians, South Asians and Mixed or other populations (totalling 3...
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- 10.1038/ncomms14946
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Nowak, J
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Communications Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Pages:
- 14946
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-15
- DOI:
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2041-1723
- Pubs id:
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pubs:695816
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uri:2c2dc82b-53d2-4f92-a844-48f20d0b34ff
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- Deane et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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