A genome-wide association study identifies six novel risk loci for primary biliary cholangitis

Primary biliary cholangitis is an autoimmune liver disease. Here, the authors show that variants in interleukin genes which potentially deregulate their expression are associated with this condition, and suggest that the IL21 signalling pathway may have a role in disease aetiology.

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Main Authors:	Fang Qiu, Ruqi Tang, Xianbo Zuo, Xingjuan Shi, Yiran Wei, Xiaodong Zheng, Yaping Dai, Yuhua Gong, Lan Wang, Ping Xu, Xiang Zhu, Jian Wu, Chongxu Han, Yueqiu Gao, Kui Zhang, Yuzhang Jiang, Jianbo Zhou, Youlin Shao, Zhigang Hu, Ye Tian, Haiyan Zhang, Na Dai, Lei Liu, Xudong Wu, Weifeng Zhao, Xiaomin Zhang, Zhidong Zang, Jinshan Nie, Weihao Sun, Yi Zhao, Yuan Mao, Po Jiang, Hualiang Ji, Qing Dong, Junming Li, Zhenzhong Li, Xinli Bai, Li Li, Maosong Lin, Ming Dong, Jinxin Li, Ping Zhu, Chan Wang, Yanqiu Zhang, Peng Jiang, Yujue Wang, Rohil Jawed, Jing Xu, Yu Zhang, Qixia Wang, Yue Yang, Fan Yang, Min Lian, Xiang Jiang, Xiao Xiao, Yanmei Li, Jingyuan Fang, Dekai Qiu, Zhen Zhu, Hong Qiu, Jianqiong Zhang, Wenyan Tian, Sufang Chen, Ling Jiang, Bing Ji, Ping Li, Guochang Chen, Tianxue Wu, Yan Sun, Jianjiang Yu, Huijun Tang, Michun He, Min Xia, Hao Pei, Lihua Huang, Zhuye Qing, Jianfang Wu, Qinghai Huang, Junhai Han, Wei Xie, Zhongsheng Sun, Jian Guo, Gengsheng He, M. Eric Gershwin, Zhexiong Lian, Xiang Liu, Michael F. Seldin, Xiangdong Liu, Weichang Chen, Xiong Ma
Format:	article
Language:	EN
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2017
Subjects:	Science Q
Online Access:	https://doaj.org/article/2d9f1e41b1654d168ba642000f183a48
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A genome-wide association study identifies six novel risk loci for primary biliary cholangitis

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