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Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism in Taiwanese patients with gout.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Lo S F, Huang C M, Tsai C H, Chen M L, Tsai F J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine whether interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) gene polymorphism is a marker of susceptibility to or of the clinical characteristics of gout in Taiwanese patients. METHODS: 196 Taiwanese patients with gout and 103 unrelated normal healthy control subjects living in central Taiwan were studied. Polymorphism of the gene for IL-1Ra was typed from genomic DNA....
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