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Identification of 11 novel and common single nucleotide polymorphisms in the interleukin-7 receptor-alpha gene and their associations with multiple sclerosis.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jul 2003
Teutsch Suzy M, Booth David R, Bennetts Bruce H, Heard Robert N S, Stewart Graeme J
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We have investigated the interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R) alpha-chain gene as a positional and functional candidate gene for susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS), in view of its chromosomal location on 5p14-p12, a region that has shown suggestive linkage in MS genome screens, and its role in T- and B-cell proliferation and reactivity. Amplification and DNA sequencing of the IL-7Ralpha gene in pooled and...
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