Article
Apoptosis-related Fas and FasL gene polymorphisms' associations with knee osteoarthritis.
Rheumatology international - 1 Aug 2013
Sezgin Melek, Barlas İbrahim Ömer, Yıldır Seyfi, Türköz Gözde, Ankaralı Handan Çamdeviren, Şahin Günşah, Erdal Mehmet Emin
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the associations between Fas and FasL gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to knee osteoarthritis. Genomic DNA was obtained from 146 patients with knee osteoarthritis and 102 healthy controls. Genotype distributions and allelic frequencies of four polymorphisms of Fas (-670 G>A rs1800682, -1377 G>A rs2234767) and FasL (IVS2nt-124 A>G rs5030772, -844 T>C rs763110) genes were compared between the...
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