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Association of IL-18 promoter polymorphisms with predisposition to Type 1 diabetes.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Mar 2006
Mojtahedi Z, Naeimi S, Farjadian S, Omrani G R, Ghaderi A
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: IL-18, a potent IFN-gamma-inducing cytokine, is capable of polarizing the immune response to a Th1 phenotype. Recent studies have demonstrated an association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms located at positions -607 (A/C) and -137 (C/G) in the promoter region of IL-18 gene and Type 1 diabetes. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the same polymorphisms of the gene were associated...
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