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Analysis of CARD15/NOD2 haplotypes fails to identify common variants associated with rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Addo A, Le J, Li W, Aksentijevich I, Balow J, Lee A, Gregersen P K, Kastner D L, Remmers E F
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OBJECTIVES: The CARD15/NOD2 gene product plays an important role in host response to bacterial lipopolysaccharides and bacterial muramyl dipeptide via activation of NF-kappaB in monocytes. Mutations in CARD15 are associated with Crohn's disease (CD), a chronic inflammatory bowel disease. In this study we sought to determine whether CD-associated mutations or any common variants of this gene might contribute to...
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