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Epistatic effects of genes encoding immunoglobulin GM allotypes and interleukin-6 on the production of autoantibodies to 60- and 65-kDa heat-shock proteins.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jan 2004
Pandey J P, Prohászka Z, Veres A, Füst G, Hurme M
Abstract excerpt
Immunoglobulin GM and KM genes have been associated with antibody responses to a variety of antigens. A promoter-region polymorphism of interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene (-174 G/C) has been shown to be associated with antibody responses to heat-shock proteins (hsp) 60 and hsp65. To examine the possible epistatic effects of these unlinked genetic systems on the autoimmune responses to hsp60 and hsp65, 176 healthy...
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