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Genetic polymorphisms of osteopontin in association with multiple sclerosis in Japanese patients.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Mar 2003
Niino Masaaki, Kikuchi Seiji, Fukazawa Toshiyuki, Yabe Ichiro, Tashiro Kunio
Abstract excerpt
Osteopontin (OPN) exhibits pleiotropic functions and abundant transcripts for OPN are present in brains of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to investigate the role of OPN genes in the pathogenesis of MS. Polymorphisms at the 8090th, 9250th and 9583rd positions in OPN were detected by PCR-RFLP from DNAs of 116 MS Japanese patients and 124 healthy controls. The C/C genotype at the...
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