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Lack of association between juvenile idiopathic arthritis and fas gene polymorphism.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2002
Donn Rachelle, Zeggini Eleftheria, Shelley Emma, Ollier William, Thomson Wendy
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a complex genetic disease of autoimmune etiology. Fas is a molecule with a pivotal role in apoptosis and hence in immune regulation. Elevated transcriptional levels of Fas in the synovial fluid of patients with JIA suggest that it might be implicated in disease etiopathogenesis. We investigated whether a polymorphism in the Fas promoter region (-670) confers...
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