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CTLA-4 gene polymorphism confers susceptibility to primary biliary cirrhosis.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Apr 2000
Agarwal K, Jones D E, Daly A K, James O F, Vaidya B, Pearce S, Bassendine M F
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BACKGROUND/AIM: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune cholestatic liver disease thought to develop through a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors. It is characterised by T-cell-mediated non-suppurative destructive cholangitis. We have studied the polymorphic cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) gene, which encodes a molecule that is a vital negative regulator of...
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