Article
Gene--gene interaction among cytokine polymorphisms influence susceptibility to aggressive periodontitis.
Genes and immunity - 1 Sept 2011
Scapoli C, Mamolini E, Carrieri A, Guarnelli M E, Annunziata M, Guida L, Romano F, Aimetti M, Trombelli L
Abstract excerpt
Aggressive periodontitis (AgP) is a multifactorial disease. The distinctive aspect of periodontitis is that this disease must deal with a large number of genes interacting with one another and forming complex networks. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that gene-gene interaction may have a crucial role. Therefore, we carried out a pilot case-control study to identify the association of candidate epistatic...
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