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[Study of DC-SIGN gene polymorphism in patients infected with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis strains of different genotypes in the Irkutsk Region].
Problemy tuberkuleza i boleznei legkikh - 1 Jan 2007
Ogarkov O B, Medvedeva T V, Nekipelov O M, Antipina S L, Men'shikov M L
Abstract excerpt
Polymorphism of the promoter of DC-SIGN gene in Caucasians was studied at positions -336A/G and -871/G in 134 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 112 healthy individuals, who lived in the Irkutsk Region, Eastern Siberia. In 90 patients from the patient cohort M. tuberculosis DNA was isolated and investigated using the MIRU-VNTR typing test by 12 loci. Comparison of DC-SIGN gene polymorphism in patients with...
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