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Tumor necrosis factor-alpha microsatellite polymorphism association with rheumatoid arthritis in Indian patients.
Archives of medical research - 1 Jan 2000
Agrawal Charu, Raghav Sunil Kumar, Gupta Bhawna, Das Rakha Hari, Chaturvedi Ved Prakash, Goswami Kalyan, Das Hasi Rani
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BACKGROUND: Level of TNF-alpha increases significantly in synovial fluid of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. It is proposed that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) microsatellite alleles may influence its expression and presumably can contribute to the disease severity. However, there is a lack of such study to predict any such association with RA in an Indian population. METHODS: In this study, we investigated the...
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