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Variation in the CXCR1 gene (IL8RA) is not associated with susceptibility to chronic periodontitis.
Journal of negative results in biomedicine - 3 Nov 2011
Scarel-Caminaga Raquel M, Curtis Karen M C, Renzi Rivelto, Sogumo Patrícia M, Anovazzi Giovana, Viana Aline C, Kim Yeon J, Orrico Silvana R P, Cirelli Joni A
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BACKGROUND: The chemokine receptor 1 CXCR-1 (or IL8R-alpha) is a specific receptor for the interleukin 8 (IL-8), which is chemoattractant for neutrophils and has an important role in the inflammatory response. The polymorphism rs2234671 at position Ex2+860G>C of the CXCR1 gene causes a conservative amino acid substitution (S276T). This single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) seemed to be functional as it was...
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