Epidemiology of ankylosing spondylitis: IGAS 2009.
The International Genetics of Ankylosing Spondylitis (IGAS) meeting was held in Houston, Texas, July 25, 2009. Sixteen investigators from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America presented the status of their respective cohorts of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). They also reviewed a proposal to examine their patients by single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping on an Illumina Infinium microarray SNP genotyping chip in a case-control cohort exceeding 12,000 samples. This chip will type 200,000 SNP selected from the most strongly associated variants identified in genome-wide association studies of inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, and ankylosing spondylitis.
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. john.d.reveille@uth.tmc.edu
John D
JD
Reveille
Matthew A
MA
Brown
D003226:Congresses as Topic; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics*; D013781:Texas