Candidate Gene Analysis Of Alopecia Areata In Jordanian Population Of Arab Descent: A Case-Control Study.

Laith Naser Al-EitanRawan O Al MomaniKhalid K Al MomaniAhmad M Al WarawrahHanan A Aljamal Mansour Abdullah Alghamdi Alsharif M MuhannaFiras A Al-Qarqaz

Published in: The application of clinical genetics (2019)

This is the first study of its kind among the Jordanian population providing evidence of genetic association of the TNFα with AA susceptibility. Further genetic studies on Arab descent including other variants are required to clarify and strengthen the association of these genes with susceptibility to develop AA.

Keyphrases

genome wide
copy number
dna methylation
rheumatoid arthritis
gene expression