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Effects of a single nucleotide polymorphism on the expression of human tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Aug 2006
Lv K, Chen R, Cai Q, Fang M, Sun S
Abstract excerpt
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha plays a prominent role in inflammations and is a proinflammatory cytokine that has been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune and infectious diseases. Recent association studies have found that the TNF-alpha-857T allele was associated with several disorders. Here we demonstrate, with reporter genes under the control of the two allelic TNF-alpha promoters, that the minor...
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