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Interethnic studies of TNF polymorphisms confirm the likely presence of a second MHC susceptibility locus in ankylosing spondylitis.
Genes and immunity - 1 Oct 2000
Milicic A, Lindheimer F, Laval S, Rudwaleit M, Ackerman H, Wordsworth P, Hohler T, Brown M A
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to investigate TNF promoter region polymorphisms for association with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The TNF -238 and -308 polymorphisms were genotyped in 306 English AS cases and 204 ethnically matched healthy B27-positive controls, and 96 southern...
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