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Interleukin-17F single-nucleotide polymorphism (7488T>C) and its association with susceptibility to leprosy.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Apr 2014
Chaitanya V S, Jadhav R S, Lavania M, Singh M, Valluri V, Sengupta U
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The objective of this study was to investigate the association, if any, between the interleukin-17F (7488T>C) (rs763780) polymorphism and susceptibility to leprosy and to elucidate the relationship between IL-17F genotypes and clinical profile of the disease. DNA was extracted from the peripheral venous blood of leprosy cases (n = 140), which were classified as per WHO classification into paucibacillary (PB) (n =...
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