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Association study with Wegener granulomatosis of the human phospholipase Cgamma2 gene.
Journal of negative results in biomedicine - 9 Feb 2005
Jagiello Peter, Wieczorek Stefan, Yu Philipp, Csernok Elena, Gross Wolfgang L, Epplen Joerg T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Wegener Granulomatosis (WG) is a multifactorial disease of yet unknown aetiology characterized by granulomata of the respiratory tract and systemic necrotizing vasculitis. Analyses of candidate genes revealed several associations, e.g. with alpha(1)-antitrypsin, proteinase 3 and with the HLA-DPB1 locus. A mutation in the abnormal limb mutant 5 (ALI5) mouse in the region coding for the hydrophobic...
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