View source for Restless legs syndrome

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In a genomewide association study of 393 RLS patients and 1602 controls, Winkelmann et al. (2007) found a significant association between [[restless legs syndrome]] and dbSNP rs2300478 in the MEIS1 gene (601739). The findings were confirmed in 2 independent replication studies of 875 and 211 patients, respectively. Combined results of all 3 studies yielded an overall odds ratio of 1.74 for the G allele (p = 8.08 x 10(-23)). The study also showed evidence for an association with several SNPs within a region on chromosome 15q that contains the LBXCOR1 (611273) and MAP2K5 (602520) genes.<br />
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<strong>[[What is restless legs syndrome?]]</strong><br />
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<font size="4"><strong>Other information</strong></font><br />
GENE: RLS1<br />
CYTO : 12q12-q21<br />
DESC: Restless legs syndrome, susceptibility to, 1<br />
SNP&nbsp;&nbsp; : rs2300478<br />
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<strong><font size="4">External Links<br />
</font></strong>[http://www.rls.org/ RLS.com]<br />
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<font size="4"><strong>Reference</strong></font><br />
Winkelmann, J.; Schormair, B.; Lichtner, P.; Ripke, S.; Xiong, L.; Jalilzadeh, S.; Fulda, S.; Putz, B.; Eckstein, G.; Hauk, S.; Trenkwalder, C.; Zimprich, A.; and 15 others : <br />
:Genome-wide association study of restless legs syndrome identifies common variants in three genomic regions. Nature Genet. 39: 1000-1006, 2007. PubMed ID : 17637780<br />