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Different effects of a CD14 gene polymorphism on disease outcome in patients with alcoholic liver disease and chronic hepatitis C infection.
World journal of gastroenterology - 14 Oct 2005
Meiler C, Muhlbauer M, Johann M, Hartmann A, Schnabl B, Wodarz N, Schmitz G, Scholmerich J, Hellerbrand C
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AIM: Clinical and experimental data suggest that gut-derived endotoxins are an important pathogenic factors for progression of chronic liver disease. Recently, a C-T (-159) polymorphism in the promoter region of the CD14 gene was detected and found to confer increased CD14 expression and to be associated with advanced alcoholic liver damage. Here, we investigated this polymorphism in patients with less advanced...
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