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Meta-analysis confirms an association between gout and a common variant of LRRC16A locus

Hiraku OgataDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan,
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Hirotaka MatsuoDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, Correspondence[email protected]
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Masayuki SakiyamaDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan,
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Toshihide HigashinoDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan,
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Makoto KawaguchiDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan,
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Akiyoshi NakayamaDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan,
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Mariko NaitoDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan,
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Hiroshi OoyamaRyougoku East Gate Clinic, Tokyo, Japan,
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Kimiyoshi IchidaDepartment of Pathophysiology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, and ;Division of Kidney and Hypertension, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Nariyoshi ShinomiyaDepartment of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan,
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Pages 553-555 | Received 31 Mar 2016, Accepted 24 Jul 2016, Published online: 01 Sep 2016
 
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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank all the participants involved in this study. We also wish to thank K. Gotanda, Y. Morimoto, M. Miyazawa, S. Shimizu, T. Chiba, Y. Kawamura, A. Akashi and Y. Tanahashi for the genetic analysis, A. Tokumasu, K. Ooyama, K. Wakai and N. Hamajima for sample collection and H. Nakashima, Y. Sakurai, T. Takada, T. Nakamura and H. Tanaka for the helpful discussion.

Conflict of interest

Authors declare no conflicts of interest. This study is supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan including the MEXT KAKENHI (Grant numbers 221S0001, 25293145, and 15K15227), the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, the Ministry of Defense of Japan, the Kawano Masanori Memorial Foundation for Promotion of Pediatrics, the Gout Research Foundation of Japan.

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