Common variant of BCAS3 is associated with gout risk in Japanese population: the first replication study after gout GWAS in Han Chinese

• Main Authors: Masayuki Sakiyama (Author), Hirotaka Matsuo (Author), Hirofumi Nakaoka (Author), Yusuke Kawamura (Author), Makoto Kawaguchi (Author), Toshihide Higashino (Author), Akiyoshi Nakayama (Author), Airi Akashi (Author), Jun Ueyama (Author), Takaaki Kondo (Author), Kenji Wakai (Author), Yutaka Sakurai (Author), Ken Yamamoto (Author), Hiroshi Ooyama (Author), Nariyoshi Shinomiya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Gout is a common disease resulting from hyperuricemia which causes acute arthritis. A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) of gout identified three new loci for gout in Han Chinese: regulatory factor X3 (RFX3), potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily Q member 1 (KCNQ1),...