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Association between vitamin D receptor, CCR5, TNF-alpha and TNF-beta gene polymorphisms and HBV infection and severity of liver disease.
Journal of hepatology - 1 May 2006
Suneetha Pothakamuri Venkata, Sarin Shiv Kumar, Goyal Ankur, Kumar Gollapudi Tharun, Shukla Deepak Kumar, Hissar Syed
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin-D is involved in immunomodulation. Expression of vitamin-D receptors in hepatocytes suggests its role in hepatocellular injury. We studied the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes involved in immunoregulatory functions of vitamin-D with su...
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