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T-1237C polymorphism of TLR9 gene is not associated with multiple sclerosis in the Portuguese population.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) - 1 May 2008
Carvalho A, Santos M, Maciel P, Rodrigues F
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, with disturbances of the immunological balance. As TLR9-null mice showed increased resistance to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and recent genetic investigations showed that T-1237C promoter polymorphism of TLR9, commonly implicated in autoimmune diseases, induces a deregulation of its expression, we performed an...
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