Genome-wide association study identifies 12 new susceptibility loci for primary biliary cirrhosis.
George F Mells,
James AB Floyd,
Katherine I Morley,
Heather J Cordell,
Christopher S Franklin,
So-Youn Shin,
Michael A Heneghan,
James M Neuberger,
Peter T Donaldson,
Darren B Day,
Samantha J Ducker,
Agnes W Muriithi,
Elizabeth F Wheater,
Christopher J Hammond,
Muhammad F Dawwas,
UK PBC Consortium,
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 3,
David E Jones,
Leena Peltonen,
Graeme J Alexander,
Richard N Sandford,
Carl A Anderson
Dec 15, 2020
In addition to the HLA locus, six genetic risk factors for primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) have been identified in recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To identify additional loci, we carried out a GWAS using 1,840...