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Association between polymorphism in STAT4 gene and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a meta-analysis.
Human immunology - 1 May 2013
Tong Guanghui, Zhang Xiaochen, Tong Weiwei, Liu Yong
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BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease, affecting 1% of the population worldwide. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of signal transducer and activator of transcription 4 (STAT4) gene are suspected to have some relationship with the risk of RA. This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the relationship between the polymorphism rs7574865 in STAT4 gene with RA and...
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