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Functional differences exist between TNFα promoters encoding the common -237G SNP and the rarer HLA-B*5701-linked A variant.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Simpson Peter D, Moysi Eirini, Wicks Kate, Sudan Kritika, Rowland-Jones Sarah L, McMichael Andrew J, Knight Julian, Gillespie Geraldine M
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A large body of functional and epidemiological evidence have previously illustrated the impact of specific MHC class I subtypes on clinical outcome during HIV-1 infection, and these observations have recently been re-iterated in genome wide association studies (GWAS). Yet because of the complexities surrounding GWAS-based approaches and the lack of knowledge relating to the identity of rarer single nucleotide...
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