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Cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated antigen-4 exon 1 A/G polymorphism in Iranian patients with multiple sclerosis.
European journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2008
Borhani Haghighi A, Ghahramani S, Azarpira N, Pourjafar M, Nikseresht A R
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BACKGROUND: Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) is a T-cell surface receptor of activated T cells. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We studied 100 Iranian patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) and 100 ethnic, sex- and age-matched controls. CTLA-4 exon 1 A/G polymorphism was compared amongst patients and controls. RESULTS: There was no statistically significant difference in the allelic [odds ratio...
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