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Complex traits

• Original article:

  MEIS1 and BTBD9: genetic association with restless leg syndrome in end stage renal disease

  (14 May, 2011)

  Barbara Schormair, Jens Plag, Maria Kaffe, Nadine Groß, Darina Czamara, Walter Samtleben, Peter Lichtner, Andreas Ströhle, Ioannis Stefanidis, Andreas Vainas, Efthimios Dardiotis, George K Sakkas, Christian Gieger, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Thomas Meitinger, Uwe Heemann, Georgios M Hadjigeorgiou, Konrad Oexle, Juliane Winkelmann
• Original article:

  Genome-wide linkage and association mapping identify susceptibility alleles in ABCC4 for Kawasaki disease

  (13 May, 2011)

  Chiea Chuen Khor, Sonia Davila, Chisato Shimizu, Stephanie Sheng, Tomoyo Matsubara, Yasuo Suzuki, Jane W Newburger, Annette Baker, David Burgner, Willemijn Breunis, Taco Kuijpers, Victoria J Wright, Michael Levin, Martin L Hibberd, Jane C Burns, on behalf of the US and International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortia
• Original article:

  Variants in or near KITLG, BAK1, DMRT1, and TERT-CLPTM1L predispose to familial testicular germ cell tumour

  (26 May, 2011)

  Christian P Kratz, Summer S Han, Philip S Rosenberg, Sonja I Berndt, Laurie Burdett, Meredith Yeager, Larissa A Korde, Phuong L Mai, Ruth Pfeiffer, Mark H Greene
• Original article: A role for XRCC2 gene polymorphisms in breast cancer risk and survival (31 May, 2011)

  Wei-Yu Lin, Nicola J Camp, Lisa A Cannon-Albright, Kristina Allen-Brady, Sabapathy Balasubramanian, Malcolm W R Reed, John L Hopper, Carmel Apicella, Graham G Giles, Melissa C Southey, Roger L Milne, Jose I Arias-Pérez, Primitiva Menéndez-Rodríguez, Javier Benítez, Magdalena Grundmann, Natalia Dubrowinskaja, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Thilo Dörk, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Jonine Figueroa, Mark Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Douglas F Easton, Alison M Dunning, Preetha Rajaraman, Alice J Sigurdson, Michele M Doody, Martha S Linet, Paul D Pharoah, Marjanka K Schmidt, Angela Cox
• Original article: Association of HLA class I markers with multiple sclerosis in the Italian and UK population: evidence of two independent protective effects (25 March, 2011)

  Laura Bergamaschi, Maria Ban, Nadia Barizzone, Maurizio Leone, Daniela Ferrante, Maria Edvige Fasano, Franca R Guerini, Lucia Corrado, Paola Naldi, Ennia Dametto, Cristina Agliardi, Marco Salvetti, Rosella Mechelli, Daniela Galimberti, Elio Scarpini, Paola Cavalla, Valeria Bargiggia, Domenico Caputo, Susanna Cordera, Francesco Monaco, Patricia Momigliano-Richiardi, Sandra D'Alfonso
• Short report: Revisiting genome wide association studies (GWAS) in coeliac disease: replication study in Spanish population and expression analysis of candidate genes (13 April, 2011)

  Leticia Plaza-Izurieta, Ainara Castellanos-Rubio, Iñaki Irastorza, Nora Fernández-Jimenez, Galder Gutierrez, CEGEC, Jose Ramon Bilbao