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Association of interleukin-18 promoter polymorphisms with WHO pathological classes and serum IL-18 levels in Chinese patients with lupus nephritis.
Lupus - 1 Jan 2009
Chen D Y, Hsieh C W, Chen K S, Chen Y M, Lin F J, Lan J L
Abstract excerpt
Accumulating evidence indicates that interleukin (IL)-18 has a central role in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN). Although two recent studies showed that IL-18 promoter gene polymorphisms might be associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), to our knowledge, there have not been any...
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