Article
Allelic variation in the TNF-beta gene does not explain the low TNF-beta response in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Dec 1991
Messer G, Spengler U, Jung M C, Honold G, Eisenburg J, Scholz S, Albert E D, Pape G R, Riethmüller G, Weiss E H
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune disorders in humans are often associated with particular alleles of major histocompatibility genes. However, the chronic inflammatory liver disease primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) has not been found to be correlated with certain haplotypes so far. Interestingly, an impaired production...
Topics
- Alleles
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary
- Lymphotoxin-alpha
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
