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Interactions of lymphotoxin alpha (TNF-beta), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), and endothelin-1 (ET-1) gene polymorphisms in adult periodontitis.
Journal of periodontology - 1 Jan 2001
Hollá L I, Fassmann A, Vasků A, Znojil V, Vanek J, Vácha J
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BACKGROUND: Adult periodontitis is a complex multifactorial disease whose etiology is not well defined. To investigate whether the genes encoded within the HLA class III region may confer susceptibility to periodontitis, polymorphisms in the ET-1 and TNF-beta genes were analyzed together with the...
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