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Study of programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1) gene polymorphims in Iranian patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
Inflammation - 1 Dec 2011
Soleimanifar Narjes, Amirzargar Ali Akbar, Mahmoudi Mahdi, Pourfathollah Ali Akbar, Azizi Esfandiar, Jamshidi Ahmad Reza, Rezaei Nima, Tahoori Mohammad Taher, Bidad Katayoon, Nikbin Behrouz, Nicknam Mohammad Hossein
Abstract excerpt
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease, characterized by axial arthritis in which the genetic-environmental factors seem to be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. This study was performed to investigate the role of polymorphisms of the programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1) gene on susceptibility to AS. In this study, 161 Iranian patients with AS and 208 normal controls were enrolled; two...
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