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Influence of cytokine and ICAM-1 gene polymorphisms on susceptibility to chronic pancreatitis.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Jun 2005
Howell W M, Pead P J, Shek F W, Rose-Zerilli M J, Armstrong T, Johnson C D, Fine D R, Iredale J P, Bateman A C
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AIMS: To test the hypothesis that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within genes (or their promoter regions) encoding cytokines, growth factors, and intercellular adhesion molecules modulate the risk of development of chronic pancreatitis (CP). METHODS: DNA was extracted from peripheral blood leucocytes or formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissue from 53 patients with CP and 266 healthy controls. SNPs...
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