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Febrile seizures: interleukin 1beta and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist polymorphisms.
Pediatric neurology - 1 Feb 2009
Serdaroğlu Gul, Alpman Asude, Tosun Ayse, Pehlivan Sacide, Ozkinay Ferda, Tekgül Hasan, Gökben Sarenur
Abstract excerpt
In order to investigate the association between IL-1beta -511 C-->T and IL-1 receptor antagonist intron 2 variable tandem repeat polymorphisms, and febrile seizures in children, 90 children (mean age, 19.7 +/- 11.2 months) diagnosed with febrile seizure and 106 healthy controls (mean age, 14.2 +/- 3.6 months) with no seizure or neurologic events were included in the study. The polymorphisms were analyzed using...
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