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Interleukin 1 genotypes in multiple sclerosis and relationship to disease severity.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Aug 2002
Mann C L A, Davies M B, Stevenson V L, Leary S M, Boggild M D, Ko Ko C, Jones P W, Fryer A A, Strange R C, Thompson A J, Hawkins C P
Abstract excerpt
We studied the association between clinical outcome in MS and allelic variants single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha), IL-1beta and a variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RN). A total of 377 patients with MS were studied. Significant associations between IL-1 genotypes and clinical outcome were found using logistic regression after correction for...
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