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Variants of the IL23R gene are associated with ankylosing spondylitis but not with Sjögren syndrome in Hungarian population samples.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Jul 2009
Sáfrány E, Pazár B, Csöngei V, Járomi L, Polgár N, Sipeky C, Horváth I F, Zeher M, Poór G, Melegh B
Abstract excerpt
Recently, associations were found between several autoimmune diseases and functional variants of interleukin-23 receptor (IL23R) gene; here, we studied the possible association of nine polymorphisms of IL23R with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and with Sjögren syndrome (SS). In our study, we genotyped groups of patients with AS (n = 206), SS (n = 156) and healthy controls (n = 235) for rs11805303, rs10889677,...
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