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Genetic polymorphisms in the surfactant proteins in systemic sclerosis in Japanese: T/T genotype at 1580 C/T (Thr131Ile) in the SP-B gene reduces the risk of interstitial lung disease.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Mar 2008
Sumita Y, Sugiura T, Kawaguchi Y, Baba S, Soejima M, Murakawa Y, Hara M, Kamatani N
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OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the pulmonary surfactant protein (SP) genes and the presence or absence of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in SSc patients. METHODS: We studied 127 Japanese patients with SSc and 206 normal subjects. Investigated SNPs were C/T within amino acid (aa) 219, Arg219Trp in the SP-A1 gene (rs4253527), C/T within aa 131 (at...
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