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Autoimmunity and tuberculosis. Opposite association with TNF polymorphism.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Feb 2005
Correa Paula A, Gomez Luis M, Cadena Jose, Anaya Juan-Manuel
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine the influence of the -308 and -238 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of tumor necrosis factor-a gene (TNF) on patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), primary Sjogren's syndrome (SS), and tuberculosis (TB). METHODS: Genomic DNA from patients with RA (n = 165), SLE (n = 100), primary SS (n = 67), and TB (n = 135) and ethnically matched controls (n =...
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