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Interleukin-10 high producer allele and ultrasound-defined periventricular white matter abnormalities in preterm infants: a preliminary study.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Jun 2006
Dördelmann M, Kerk J, Dressler F, Brinkhaus M-J, Bartels D B, Dammann C E L, Dörk T, Dammann O
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OBJECTIVES: Inflammation plays a role in prematurity, in neonatal disorders of the brain, lung, eye, bowel, and in developmental disability among preterm infants. We initiated a pilot study in preterm children to determine the prevalence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the infection/inflammation-associated genes for interleukin (IL)-10 (- 1082 G/A), IL-1beta (+ 3953 C/T), tumor necrosis factor...
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