Background: Over the past few decades, gout and diseases like metabolic syndrome (MetS)
have become more prevalent. Attempts have been made in Taiwan to identify the genes …

Objective To determine whether a gout polygenic risk score (PRS) is associated with age at
gout onset and tophaceous disease in European, East Polynesian, and West Polynesian …

Deposition of crystallized monosodium urate (MSU) in joints as a result of hyperuricemia is a
central risk factor for gout. However other factors must exist that control the progression from …

Background Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for hyperuricaemia and gout. Multiple
single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been identified as associated with both …

Gout is a metabolic disorder and one of the most common arthritic conditions. Hyperuricemia
is the hallmark of developing gout and mostly caused by uric acid underexcretion. Gout …

Over the last decade, there have been major advances in the understanding of the genetic
basis of hyperuricaemia and gout as well as of the pharmacogenetics of urate-lowering …

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Background and objective: Gout is a common form of inflammatory arthritis caused by the
crystallization of uric acid. Previous studies have demonstrated that the genetic …

Background Many different combinations of available data have been used to identify gout
cases in large genetic studies. The aim of this study was to determine the performance of …

Associations between the SLC22A12 gene and gout susceptibility: a meta-analysis Page 1
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 2018 Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology 2018; …