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Rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility and interleukin 10: a study of two ethnically diverse populations.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Jan 2003
MacKay K, Milicic A, Lee D, Tikly M, Laval S, Shatford J, Wordsworth P
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INTRODUCTION: IL-10 is an immunoregulatory cytokine which may modulate disease expression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The IL-10 gene is highly polymorphic with a number of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the promoter region and two microsatellite loci, IL10.R and IL10.G, 4 kb and 1.1 kb 5' of the transcription initiation site. It has been reported that allele 2 of the IL10.R microsatellite (IL10.R2) is...
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