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Involvement of functional polymorphisms in the TNFA gene in the pathogenesis of autoimmune thyroid diseases and production of anti-thyrotropin receptor antibody.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 May 2009
Inoue N, Watanabe M, Nanba T, Wada M, Akamizu T, Iwatani Y
Abstract excerpt
The severity of Hashimoto's disease (HD) and intractability of Graves' disease (GD) varies among patients. Severity of HD is associated with the functional +874A/T polymorphism for interferon-gamma, an inflammatory cytokine. To clarify the association between functional polymorphisms in two other inflammatory cytokine genes [tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interleukin (IL)-2] and the severity of autoimmune...
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