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A single nucleotide polymorphism in the proximal IFN-gamma promoter alters control of gene transcription.
Genes and immunity - 1 May 2002
Bream J H, Ping A, Zhang X, Winkler C, Young H A
Abstract excerpt
Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is an important cytokine that regulates cellular immune responses to intracellular pathogens and neoplasia. Regulation of IFN-gamma expression is stringently controlled at the transcriptional level. In this report we describe two novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); one, at -179 in the promoter, occurs in 4% of African Americans. This SNP represents a guanidine to thymidine...
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