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Epistatic effect of C-reactive protein (CRP) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) +1059 and interleukin-1B SNP +3954 on CRP concentration in healthy male blood donors.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Aug 2005
Eklund C, Lehtimäki T, Hurme M
Abstract excerpt
Baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations are indicative of persons prone to cardiovascular diseases and are about 40-50% heritable. We have previously shown that interleukin (IL)-1B +3954 allele T is associated with lower CRP concentration. In this study, we aimed to examine the effect of this polymorphism together with the CRP +1059 gene polymorphism on baseline CRP concentrations, and genotyped 336...
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