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Multiple Loci within the Major Histocompatibility Complex Confer Risk of Psoriasis (with Bing-Jian Feng, Liang-Dan Sun, Razieh Soltani-Arabshahi, Anne M. Bowcock, Rajan P. Nair, Philip Stuart, James T. Elder, Ann B. Begovich, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Xue-Jun Zhang, Kristina P. Callis Duffin, Gerald G. Krueger, and David E. Goldgar), PLoS Genetics (2009)

Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease characterized by thickened scaly red plaques. Previously we...

 

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Association between IL13 polymorphisms and psoriatic arthritis is modified by smoking, J Invest Dermatol (2009)

Genetic and environmental factors influence the development of psoriasis (Ps) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Recently,...

 

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Genome-wide scan reveals association of psoriasis with IL-23 and NF-B pathways (with Rajan P. Nair, Kristina C. Duffin, Cynthia Helms, Jun Ding, Philip E. Stuart, David Goldgar, Johann E. Gudjonsson, Yun Li, Trilokraj Tejasvi, Bing-Jiag Feng, Andreas Ruether, Stefan Schreiber, Michael Weichenthal, Dafna Gladman, Proton Rahman, Sampath Prahalad, Stephen L. Guthery, Judith Fischer, Wilson Liao, Pui-Yan Kwok, Alan Menter, G Mark Lathrop, Carol A. Wise, Ann B. Begovich, John J. Voorhees, James T. Elder, Gerald G. Krueger, Anne M. Bowcock, and Goncalo R. Abecasis), Nature Genetics (2009)

Psoriasis is a common immune-mediated disorder that affects the skin, nails and joints. To identify...

 

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A large-scale rheumatoid arthritis genetic study identifies association at chromosome 9q33.2, PLoS Genetics (2008)

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease affecting both joints and extra-articular tissues....

 

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Detailed genetic characterization of the interleukin-23 receptor in psoriasis, Genes & Immunity (2008)

Using a multi-tiered, case-control association design, scanning 25,215 gene-centric SNPs, we previously identified two psoriasis...

 

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Further Genetic Evidence for Three Psoriasis-Risk Genes: ADAM33, CDKAL1, and PTPN22 (with Yonghong Li, Wilson Liao, Monica Chang, Nam Bui, Joseph J. Catanese, Annie Poon, Nori Matsunami, Kristina P. Callis-Duffin, Mark F. Leppert, Anne M. Bowcock, Pui-Yan Kwok, Gerald G. Krueger, and Ann B. Begovich), Journal Investigative Dermatology (2008)

Predisposition to psoriasis is known to be affected by genetic variation in HLA-C, IL12B, and...

 

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Genome-wide Association Scan in Psoriasis: New Insights into Chronic Inflammatory Disease Biology, Expert Reviews in Clinical Immunology (2008)

Evaluation of: Liu Y, Helms C, Liao W et al. A genome-wide association study of...

 

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Neither replication nor simulation supports a role for the axon guidance pathway in the genetics of Parkinson's disease (with Yonghong Li, Charles Rowland, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Robert J. Lagier, Efthimios Dradiotis, David Ross, Nam Bui, Joseph Catanese, Konstantinos Aggelakis, Andrew Grupe, and Georgios Hadjigeorgiou), PLoS ONE (2008)

Susceptibility to sporadic Parkinson’s disease (PD) is thought to be influenced by both genetic and...

 

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The 5q31 variants associated with psoriasis and Crohn's disease are distinct, Human Molecular Genetics (2008)

Predisposition to psoriasis is known to be affected by genetic variation in HLA-C, IL12B and...

 

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Variants in the 5q31 cytokine gene cluster are associated with psoriasis, Genes and Immunity (2007)

Following a staged functional SNP scan involving 25,215 markers, we report the findings of three...

 

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A Candidate Gene Approach Identifies the TRAF1/C5 Region as a Risk Factor for Rheumatoid Arthritis (with Fina A.S. Kurreeman, Leonid Padyukov, Rute B. Marques, Maria Seddighzadeh, Gerrie Stoeken-Rijsbergen, Annette H.M. van der Helm-van Mil, Cornelia F. Allaart, Willem Verduyn, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Ann B. Begovich, Lars Klareskog, Tom W. J. Huizinga, and Rene E. M. Toes), PLoS Medicine (2007)
 

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Meta-analysis evidence of a differential risk of the FCRL3 -169T->C polymorphism in white and East Asian rheumatoid arthritis patients (with Begovich Ann and Chang Monica), Arthritis & Rheumatism (2007)

Association between a functional promoter polymorphism (rs7528684) in the Fc receptor-like gene, FCRL3, and rheumatoid...

 

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A large-scale genetic association study confirms IL12B and leads to the identification of IL23R as psoriasis risk genes (with Michele Cargill, Monica Chang, Veronica E. Garcia, Rhonda Brandon, Kristina P. Callis, Nori Matsunami, Kristin G. Ardlie, Lee A. Honigberg, Daniel Civello, Joseph J. Catanese, Diane U. Leong, Jackie M. Panko, Linda B. McAllister, Christopher B. Hansen, Jason Papenfuss, Stephen M. Prescott, Thomas J. White, Mark F. Leppert, Gerald G. Krueger, and Ann B. Begovich), American Journal of Human Genetics (2006)

We performed a multi-tiered, case-control association study of psoriasis in three independent, white North American...

 

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Pairwise linkage disequilibrium under disease models (with Veronica E. Garcia, Charles Rowland, and Hywel B. Jones), European Journal of Human Genetics (2006)

Many genetic studies of disease association rely heavily on linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns between pairs...

 

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Genetic evidence for ubiquitin-specific proteases USP24 and USP40 as candidate genes for late-onset Parkinson disease (with Yonghong Li, Charles Rowland, Kristina Tacey, Joseph Catanese, and Andrew Grupe), Human Mutation (2006)

Linkage studies have defined susceptibility regions for late-onset Parkinson disease (PD) on chromosomes 1 and...

 

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A case-control association study of the 12 single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson disease by a recent genome scan (with Yonghong Li, Charles Rowland, Walter Laird, Kristina Tacey, David Ross, Diane Leong, Joseph Catanese, John Sninsky, and Andrew Grupe), American Journal of Human Genetics (2006)
 

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Identification of two gene variants associated with risk of advanced fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (with Hongin Huang, M L. Shiffman, R C. Cheung, T J. Layden, S Friedman, O T. Abar, L Yee, Anand Chokkalingam, Jason Chan, Joseph J. Catanese, Diane U. Leong, David Ross, Xiaolan Hu, A Monto, Linda B. McAllister, Sam Broder, Tom White, John J. Sninsky, and T L. Wright), Gastroenterology (2006)

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Previously identified clinical risk factors such as sex, alcohol consumption, and age...

 
A Probabilistic Approach to Large-Scale Association Scans: A Semi-Bayesian Method to Detect Disease-Predisposing Alleles, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (2005)

Recent analytic and technological breakthroughs have set the stage for genome-wide linkage disequilibrium studies to...

 

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PTPN22 genetic variation: evidence for multiple variants associated with rheumatoid arthritis (with Victoria E. H. Carlton, Xiaolan Hu, Anand P. Chokkalingam, Rhonda Brandon, Heather C. Alexander, Monica Chang, Joseph J. Catanese, Diane U. Leong, Kristin G. Ardlie, Daniel L. Kastner, Michael F. Seldin, Lindsey A. Criswell, Peter K. Gregersen, Ellen Beasley, Glenys Thomson, Christopher I. Amos, and Ann B. Begovich), American Jounral of Human Genetics (2005)

The minor allele of the R620W missense single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs2476601) in the hematopoietic-specific protein...

 

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Association of late-onset Alzheimer's disease with genetic variation in multiple members of the GAPD gene family (with Yonghong Li, Petra Nowotny, Peter Holmans, Scott Smemo, John S. K. Kauwe, Anthony L. Hinrichs, Kristina Tacey, Lisa Doil, Ryan van Luchene, Veronica Garcia, Charles Rowland, Diane Leong, Goran Gogic, Joanne Chan, Anibal Cravchik, David Ross, Kit Lau, Shirley Kwok, Sheng-Yung Chang, Joe Catanese, John Sninsky, Thomas J. White, John Hardy, John Powell, Simon Lovestone, John C. Morris, Leon Thal, Michael Owen, Julie Williams, Alison Goate, and Andrew Grupe), Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2004)

Although several genes have been implicated in the development of the early-onset autosomal dominant form...

 

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A missense single-nucleotide polymorphism in a gene encoding a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTPN22) is associated with rheumatoid arthritis (with Ann B. Begovich, Victoria E. H. Carlton, Lee A. Honigberg, Anand P. Chokkalingam, Heather C. Alexander, Kirstin G. Ardlie, Qiqing Huang, Ashley M. Smith, Jill M. Spoerke, Marion T. Conn, Monica Chang, Sheng-Yung P. Chang, Randall K. Saiki, Joseph J. Catanese, Diane U. Leong, Veronica E. Garcia, Linda B. McAllister, Douglas A. Jeffery, Annette T. Lee, Franak Batliwalla, Elaine Remmers, Lindsey A. Criswell, Michael F. Seldin, Daniel L. Kastner, Christopher I. Amos, John J. Sninsky, and Peter K. Gregersen), American Journal of Human Genetics (2004)

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common systemic autoimmune disease, affecting approximately 1% of the...

 

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Association of ABCA1 with late-onset Alzheimer's disease is not observed in a case-control study, Neuroscience Letters (2004)

Genetic association of ABCA1 or the ATP-binding cassette A1 transporter with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD)...

 

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Selecting Tagging SNPs for Association Studies Using Power Calculations from Genotype Data (with Xiaolan Hu, David A. Ross, and Michele Cargill), Human Heredity (2004)

Recent studies have indicated that linkage disequilibrium (LD) between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers can...

 

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A modification to the standard model of haploid population genetics for small population sizes , UMI (2001)

This dialogue is concerned with improving the standard model of haploid population genetics. It is...

 

Unpublished Papers

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Calculating exact P-values for the Transmission/Disequilibrium Test (with Hywel B. Jones) (2003)

The transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) has become a popular method for analyzing genetic association studies. It...

 

Presentations

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Detailed genetic characterization of the psoriasis-associated gene IL12B to further define the causal variant(s), Society for Investigative Dermatology (2007)

A multi-tiered, case-control association study using a collection of over 25,000 gene-centric SNPs, identified association...

 

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Genetic characterization of the psoriasis-associated gene IL23R, Society of Investigative Dermatology (2007)

Using a multi-tiered, case-control association design, scanning over 25,000 gene-centric SNPs, we recently identified two...

 

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Characterizing susceptibility to phenotypic variations of psoriasis by comparing allelic association signals on chromosome 6 (with J Panko, B Wong, K Callis, N Matsunami, M A. Cargill, and G G. Krueger), Genes to Clinic Conference (2005)

Though the existence of a genetic component of psoriasis can be easily observed, the genes...

 

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Association of Fibrosis Risk in HCV Patients with a Missense SNP in Gene CPT1A (with H Huang, T L. Wright, R C. Cheung, T J. Layden, O Tuason, L Yee, A P. Chakkalingam, J Chan, J J. Catanese, D U. Leong, R Emerson, A Monto, L B. McAllister, J J. Sninsky, and M L. Shiffman), EASL (2005)
 

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Genome wide survey for common polymorphisms in human genes, Cold Spring Harbor Conference (2003)

The completion of the human genome sequence allows an opportunity for focused exploration of particular...

 

Other

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NIH Biosketch, NIH (2011)
 

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Influence of electrostatic charges on the movement of dust by wind (with Rodman N. Leach and Ronald Greeley) (1992)