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Extended IL10 haplotypes and their association with HIV progression to AIDS.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jun 2009
Oleksyk T K, Shrestha S, Truelove A L, Goedert J J, Donfield S M, Phair J, Mehta S, O'Brien S J, Smith M W
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a pleiotropic cytokine with both immunosuppressive and immunostimulatory functions. Its roles in infections and autoimmunity may have resulted in selective pressures on polymorphisms within the gene, leading to genomic coexistence of several semi-conserved haplotypes involved with diverse pathogen interactions during genomic evolution. Previous studies focused either exclusively on...
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