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[The 1188 A/C ILI2B gene polymorphism in patients with multiple sclerosis and in healthy subjects of Tomsk region].
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova - 1 Jan 2006
Alifirova V M, Orlova Iu Iu, Babenko S A, Rudko A A, Puzyrev V P
Abstract excerpt
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a multifactorial and polygenic disorder of the central nervous system, its development being under strong influence of T-helpers type I which produce anti-inflammation cytokines. Interleukin 12 (IL12) plays a key role in such polarization of the immune response. Genotyping for polymorphism of the IL12B gene in the 3'-untranslated region, coding for the p40(IL12B) subunit, has been...
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