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CTLA4 Gene Variants in Autoimmunity and Cancer: a Comparative Review
Iranian journal of immunology : IJI - 1 Sept 2011
Ghaderi Abbas
Abstract excerpt
Gene association studies are less appealing in cancer compared to autoimmune diseases. Complexity, heterogeneity, variation in histological types, age at onset, short survival, and acute versus chronic conditions are cancer related factors which are different from an organ specific autoimmune disease, such as Grave's disease, on which a large body of multicentre data is accumulated. For years the focus of...
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