We have recently described the association between rheumatoid arthritis and a coding single-nucleotide polymorphism in the intracellular protein tyrosine phosphatase, PTPN22. The disease-associated… (More)
Several studies have identified the PTPN22 allelic variant 1858 C/T that encodes the R620W amino-acid change as a putative susceptibility factor in autoimmune diseases. The current study was… (More)
A multitiered genetic association study of 25 215 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in three case–control sample sets (1446 patients and 1432 controls) identified three IL13-linked SNPs… (More)
In order to understand the forces governing the evolution of the genetic diversity in the HLA-DP molecule, polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods were used to characterize genetic variation at… (More)
Using a multi-tiered, case–control association design, scanning 25 215 gene-centric SNPs, we previously identified two psoriasis susceptibility genes: IL12B and IL23R. These results have recently… (More)
Nonradioactive sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes for the polymorphic HLA class II genes have been used to type samples from 51 Caucasian patients with the autoimmune liver disease, primary… (More)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system in which a restricted cellular immune response has been observed. In order to establish whether such T… (More)
Models of disease susceptibility in multiple sclerosis (MS) often assume a dominant action for the HLA-DRB1*1501 allele and its associated haplotype (DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 or DR2). A robust and… (More)
Molecular typing of HLA class II loci has been performed on a sample of 196 patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. Division of patients into two histological categories--nodular sclerosing Hodgkin disease… (More)
OBJECTIVES
A missense SNP, C1858T, in PTPN22 has been identified as a genetic risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Subsequent work has suggested that other variants in this gene, in particular… (More)