Article
Human aquaporin 4 gene polymorphisms in Chinese patients with neuromyelitis optica.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 15 Sept 2014
Wei Qiu, Yanyu Chang, Rui Li, Caixia Li, Youming Long, Jianhua Huang, Weihua Mai, Xiaobo Sun, Wen Xu, Ying Chen, Zhengqi Lu, Xueqiang Hu
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between aquaporin 4 (AQP4) gene polymorphisms and Chinese patients with neuromyelitis optica (NMO). METHODS: 122 consecutive anti-AQP4 autoantibody (NMO-IgG) seropositive cases were enrolled for gene sequencing. Furthermore, ten SNPs were selected and genotyped for a case-control association analysis on 208 cases and 204 healthy subjects. RESULTS: 14 novel SNPs were...
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