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Polymorphisms in the IL-18 and IL-12B genes and their association with the clinical outcome in Croatian patients with Type 1 diabetes.
Gene - 10 Jan 2013
Hadžija Marijana Popović, Korolija Marina, Jemin Nikolina, Pavković Iva, Pavković Pajica, Medvidović Edita Pape, Hadžija Mirko
Abstract excerpt
Genetic variants of IL-18 and IL-12B may be important in immunoregulatory abnormalities, observed in the patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), that contribute to individual differences in response to a treatment. Therefore, we examined the significance of IL-18-137G/C, IL-18-607C/A, and IL-12B A/C polymorphisms in Croatians (187 patients, 236 controls), not only as factors that contribute to...
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