Association study of candidate genes for susceptibility to Kashin-Beck disease in a Tibetan population

• Main Authors: Zhengfu Tai (Author), Lulin Huang (Author), Fang Lu (Author), Yi Shi (Author), Shi Ma (Author), Jing Cheng (Author), He Lin (Author), Xin Liu (Author), Yuanfeng Li (Author), Zhenglin Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Many osteoarthritis (OA) susceptibility genes have been identified in recent years. Given the overlap in the phenotype of joint inflammation between OA and Kashin-Beck disease (KBD), the aim of this study is to explore whether the reported OA susceptibility genes and two genes th...