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Association between the severity of Hashimoto's disease and the functional +874A/T polymorphism in the interferon-gamma gene.
Endocrine journal - 1 Aug 2006
Ito Chisato, Watanabe Mikio, Okuda Noriko, Watanabe Chikami, Iwatani Yoshinori
Abstract excerpt
CD8+ CD25+-activated cytotoxic T cells and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) are independently involved in the severity of Hashimoto's disease (HD). Interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) activates cytotoxic T cells. To evaluate the hypothesis that the functional +874A/T polymorphism in the gene encoding IFN-gamma is associated with the severity of HD, we examined the frequencies of this polymorphism in 34 HD patients...
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