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Associations of killer cell immunoglobulin- like receptor genes with rheumatoid arthritis.
Disease markers - 1 Jan 2012
Ramírez-De los Santos S, Sánchez-Hernández P E, Muñoz-Valle J F, Palafox-Sánchez C A, Rosales-Rivera L Y, García-Iglesias T, Daneri-Navarro A, Ramírez-Dueñas M G
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OBJECTIVE: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune and chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors are expressed on the surface of natural killer cells and CD28null T-cells, both present in synovial membrane of RA. Therefore we evaluated the associations of KIR genes with RA. METHODS: 16 KIR genes were genotyped in 100 healthy subjects (HS) and 100 RA patients...
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