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Insulin-like growth factor-1 gene polymorphism in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2012
Dhaunsi G S, Uppal S S, Haider M Z
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OBJECTIVES: Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) regulates several biological functions, and low plasma levels of IGF-1 are known to contribute towards the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In view of the biological significance of IGF-1, we investigated the association of RA with the polymorphism of a 192-bp allele which is cytosine-adenosine repeat located 1 kb upstream from the IGF-1 gene...
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