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Lack of association between macrophage migration inhibitory factor gene polymorphism and giant cell arteritis.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2005
Amoli Mahsa M, Garcia-Porrua Carlos, Ollier William E R, Gonzalez-Gay Miguel A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) gene polymorphism in giant cell arteritis (GCA). METHODS: Eighty-three patients with biopsy-proven GCA, 20 of them with visual ischemic complications, and 122 healthy matched controls from the Lugo region of Northwest Spain were studied. Patients and controls were genotyped for a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 5'-flanking...
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