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Contribution of STAT4 gene single-nucleotide polymorphism to systemic lupus erythematosus in the Polish population.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Sept 2012
Piotrowski Piotr, Lianeri Margarita, Wudarski Mariusz, Olesińska Marzena, Jagodziński Paweł P
Abstract excerpt
The STAT4 has been found to be a susceptible gene in the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in various populations. There are evident population differences in the context of clinical manifestations of SLE, therefore we investigated the prevalence of the STAT4 G > C (rs7582694) polymorphism in patients with SLE (n = 253) and controls (n = 521) in a sample of the Polish population. We found that...
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