Mucin 5B promoter polymorphism is associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis but not with development of lung fibrosis in systemic sclerosis or sarcoidosis

CJ Stock, H Sato, C Fonseca, WAS Banya… - Thorax, 2013 - thorax.bmj.com
Background A polymorphism (rs35705950) 3 kb upstream of MUC5B, the gene encoding
Mucin 5 subtype B, has been shown to be associated with familial and sporadic idiopathic …

HLA-DQB1* 0201: a marker for good prognosis in British and Dutch patients with sarcoidosis

H Sato, JC Grutters, P Pantelidis… - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQB1 is one of the intriguing candidate genes in sarcoidosis.
We performed high resolution molecular HLA-DQB1 typing on two groups of white …

Genetic Variation in the Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Gene and Morphine Requirements in Cancer Patients with Pain

TT Rakvåg, JR Ross, H Sato, F Skorpen… - Molecular …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Genetic variation contributes to differences in pain sensitivity and response to
different analgesics. Catecholamines are involved in the modulation of pain and are partly …

Sarcoidosis HLA class II genotyping distinguishes differences of clinical phenotype across ethnic groups

H Sato, FA Woodhead, T Ahmad… - Human molecular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The HLA class II (DRB1 and DQB1) associations with sarcoidosis have been studied by several
groups but often without consistent results. In this paper, we consider the hypothesis that …

Human Spt6 stimulates transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II in vitro

…, T Narita, T Yamada, A Furuya, H Sato… - … and cellular biology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Recent studies have suggested that Spt6 participates in the regulation of transcription by
RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). However, its underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. …

Genetic variation and response to morphine in cancer patients: catechol‐O‐methyltransferase and multidrug resistance‐1 gene polymorphisms are associated with …

…, J Riley, AB Taegetmeyer, H Sato… - … Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Pain is a common symptom for patients with cancer, and opioids are the
treatment of choice for moderate or severe cancer‐related pain. Central side effects, such as …

Haplotype-specific linkage disequilibrium patterns define the genetic topography of the human MHC

…, K Mulcahy-Hawes, J Crawshaw, H Sato… - Human molecular …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Detailed knowledge of linkage disequilibrium (LD) is regarded as a prerequisite for
population-based disease gene mapping. Variable patterns across the human genome are now …

Increased frequency of the uncommon tumor necrosis factor− 857T allele in British and Dutch patients with sarcoidosis

JC Grutters, H Sato, P Pantelidis, AL Lagan… - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
Interindividual variation in the expression of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)- α suggests the
existence of functionally distinct TNF alleles, which might play a role in sarcoidosis. We …

CC chemokine receptor 2 and sarcoidosis: association with Lofgren's syndrome

P Spagnolo, EA Renzoni, AU Wells, H Sato… - American journal of …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
Sarcoidosis is thought to result from the interaction between an unknown environmental
antigenic trigger and the host's genetic susceptibility. We hypothesized that sarcoidosis, or one …

Influence of MHC class II in susceptibility to beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease

LA Maier, DS McGrath, H Sato, P Lympany… - The Journal of …, 2003 - journals.aai.org
A glutamic acid at residue 69 (Glu 69) in the HLA-DPB1 gene (Glu 69) is associated with
chronic beryllium disease (CBD) and possibly beryllium sensitization (BeS). This study tested …