The past five years have seen many scientific and biological discoveries made through the
experimental design of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). These studies were …

The term axial spondyloarthritis covers both patients with non-radiographic and radiographic
axial spondyloarthritis, which is also termed ankylosing spondylitis. The disease usually …

Interleukin-23 (IL-23) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine composed of two subunits, IL-23A (p19)
and IL-12/23B (p40), the latter shared with Interleukin-12 (IL-12). IL-23 is mainly produced …

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a common type of spondyloarthropathy, is a chronic
inflammatory autoimmune disease that mainly affects spine joints, causing severe, chronic …

Ankylosing spondylitis is a common inflammatory rheumatic disease that affects the axial
skeleton, causing characteristic inflammatory back pain, which can lead to structural and …

Ankylosing spondylitis is a common form of inflammatory arthritis predominantly affecting the
spine and pelvis that occurs in approximately 5 out of 1,000 adults of European descent …

Ankylosing spondylitis is a common, highly heritable inflammatory arthritis affecting primarily
the spine and pelvis. In addition to HLA-B* 27 alleles, 12 loci have previously been identified …

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a complex, potentially debilitating disease that is insidious in
onset, progressing to radiological sacroiliitis over several years. Patients with symptomatic …

Objective Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common, highly heritable immune‐mediated
arthropathy that occurs in genetically susceptible individuals exposed to an unknown but …

To identify susceptibility loci for ankylosing spondylitis, we undertook a genome-wide
association study in 2,053 unrelated ankylosing spondylitis cases among people of …