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Immunoglobulin GM genes and IgG antibodies to cytomegalovirus in patients with systemic sclerosis.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Pandey J P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of GM and KM genes--genetic markers of immunoglobulin gamma and kappa chains, respectively--in humoral immunity to human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma). METHODS: A total of 137 Caucasian patients with SSc and 145 ethnically matched controls were genotyped for GM f/3, z/17, n+/23+, n-/23-, KM 1, and KM 3 alleles by polymerase chain...
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