1. A nonsynonymous functional variant of the ITGAM gene is not involved in biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis.
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Carmona FD, Serrano A, Rodríguez-Rodríguez L, Castañeda S, Miranda-Filloy JA, Morado IC, Narváez J, Solans R, Sopeña B, Marí-Alfonso B, Unzurrunzaga A, Ortego-Centeno N, Blanco R, de Miguel E, Hidalgo-Conde A, Martín J, and González-Gay MA
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- Aged, Biopsy, Female, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Spain, CD11b Antigen genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Giant Cell Arteritis genetics, Giant Cell Arteritis pathology, Polymorphism, Genetic
- Abstract
Objective: To investigate whether a functional integrin alpha M (ITGAM) variant is involved in susceptibility to and clinical manifestations of giant cell arteritis (GCA)., Methods: A Spanish cohort of 437 white patients with biopsy-proven GCA and 1388 healthy controls were genotyped using the TaqMan allele discrimination technology., Results: No association was observed between ITGAM rs1143679 and GCA (p = 0.80, OR 0.97). Similarly, subphenotype analyses did not yield significant differences between the case subgroups and the control set or between GCA patients with or without the main specific features of GCA., Conclusion: Our results suggest that the ITGAM rs1143679 variant does not play an important role in the pathophysiology of GCA.
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- 2011
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