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Interleukin-6 gene polymorphism in Iranian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Feb 2011
Godarzi Esmaeil Moazemi, Sarvestani Eskandar Kamali, Aflaki Elham, Amirghofran Zahra
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin 6 (IL-6) has been shown to be related to the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In the present study, the relationship between two polymorphisms in the promoter region of IL-6 gene at positions -572 G/C and -174 G/C and disease susceptibility in 401 Iranian patients with SLE was investigated using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method. The genotype...
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