Abstracts tagged "Genetics and osteoarthritis"

Abstract Number: 297 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genetic and Environmental Correlation of Osteoarthritis at the Hands, Knees, and Spine
Michelle S. Yau^1,2, Yanhua Zhou³, Douglas P. Kiel⁴, Elizabeth J. Samelson¹ and David T. Felson^2,5, ¹Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ³Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁴Institute for Aging Research, Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Boston, MA, ⁵Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) may affect multiple joint sites, including the hands, knees, and spine. Studies have suggested high heritability for hand OA, but OA in the…
Abstract Number: 1889 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genome-Wide Association Study Of Knee Radiographic Osteoarthritis In African-American Populations
Youfang Liu¹, Michelle S. Yau², Laura Yerges-Armstrong², M C. Hochberg³, Braxton D. Mitchell², Rebecca D. Jackson⁴, Jordan B. Renner⁵, David Duggan⁶ and Joanne M. Jordan⁷, ¹Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ³Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ⁵University of North Carolina Department of Radiology, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁶Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, ⁷Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Few SNPs and susceptibility genes have been identified in previous genome-wide and candidate gene association studies for knee radiographic osteoarthritis (OA). Nearly all studies…