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Association of functional polymorphisms related to the transcriptional level of FOXP3 with prognosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 Dec 2010
Inoue N, Watanabe M, Morita M, Tomizawa R, Akamizu T, Tatsumi K, Hidaka Y, Iwatani Y
Abstract excerpt
The severity of Hashimoto's disease (HD) and intractability (or inducibility to remission) of Graves' disease (GD) varies among patients. Forkhead box P3 (FoxP3) is a crucial regulatory factor for the development and function of regulatory T (T(reg) ) cells, and deficiency of the FoxP3 gene (FOXP3) suppresses the regulatory function of T(reg) cells. To clarify the association of the functional polymorphisms of...
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