rs4349859
— HLA-B HLA-B27 proxy
Intronic tag SNP located 41 kb centromeric of HLA-B and 5.4 kb telomeric of MICA; the A allele tags HLA-B*27:05 and related European HLA-B27 subtypes with 98% sensitivity and 99% specificity, serving as a genetic proxy for HLA-B27 status and enabling contextualization of ERAP1 × HLA-B27 epistasis in ankylosing spondylitis risk
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