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Interleukin-10 promoter polymorphisms in hepatitis C patients with and without Schistosoma mansoni co-infection.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Oct 2009
Abbas Omaima M, Abdel-Rahman Mohamed H, Omar Nabil A, Badran Hanaa M, Amir Elamir M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIM: Interleukin (IL-10) plays a major role in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) disease pathogenesis, in particular in Schistosoma mansoni (S. mansoni) co-infected patients. Given that interindividual variations in IL-10 production are influenced by functional polymorphisms in the IL-10 gene promoter, we determined the frequencies of common (-1082, -819 and -592) IL-10 promoter polymorphisms in chronic...
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