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Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism and susceptibility to ischemic stroke.
Immunological investigations - 1 Jan 2009
Rezaii Ali Akbar, Hoseinipanah Seyed Mohamad, Hajilooi Mehrdad, Rafiei Ali Reza, Shikh Nasrin, Haidari Mehran
Abstract excerpt
Cytokines gene polymorphisms have been implicated in susceptibility to ischemic stroke. This study aims to determine the influence of the polymorphism within the intron 2 of the interleukin- 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) gene on the susceptibility to stroke. A variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) in intron 2 of the IL-1Ra gene was analyzed in 148 patients with stroke and 161 healthy volunteers from the same...
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