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The IL-17 G-152A single nucleotide polymorphism is associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in northern Spain.
Cytokine - 1 Oct 2013
Ocejo-Vinyals Javier Gonzalo, de Mateo Elena Puente, Hoz María Ángeles, Arroyo José Luis, Agüero Ramón, Ausín Fernado, Fariñas M Carmen
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BACKGROUND: Interleukin 17 (IL-17) is induced during the early stages of tuberculosis infection, playing an important role in the defense against mycobacterial infection. To date, only one study performed in Chinese Han population has found an association between IL-17F sequence variants and susceptibility to tuberculosis, but no relationship has been found with another single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in...
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