Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Genome-wide Study for Disease Susceptibility Gene(s) in Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis
Brief Summary:
This is a case-control study involving one medical center and one research institute to develop a data-set containing a minimum of 100 osteoarthritis cases, minimum of 100 independent controls of similar gender ratio and a minimum of 100 disease controls (cases with hip and/or knee OA) to associate DNA sequence (allelic) variations in candidate genes with osteoarthritis phenotypes.
This study is intended to begin at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Academia Sinica (which includes National Genotyping Center (NGC) and National Clinical Core (NCC)), National Taiwan University Hospital.