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The -308 promoter polymorphism in the tumour necrosis factor gene in patients with lichen planus.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jan 2005
Krasowska Dorota, Chodorowska Grazyna, Koziol-Montewka Maria, Ksiazek Andrzej, Buraczynska Monika
Abstract excerpt
The close chromosomal proximity of major histocompatibility complex and tumour necrosis factor genes may suggest the involvement of the latter in the pathogenesis of immunological diseases associated with HLA antigenes. The major histocompatibility complex antigens may play a certain role in the pathogenesis of lichen planus. Therefore we examined the -308 promoter polymorphism of tumour necrosis factor gene in...
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