Article
Interleukin-17FT7488 allele is associated with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer and tumor progression.
Gene - 25 Apr 2015
Nemati Kazem, Golmoghaddam Hossein, Hosseini Seyed Vahid, Ghaderi Abbas, Doroudchi Mehrnoosh
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: IL-17 family of cytokines and human IL-23R play important and sometimes contradictory roles in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases as well as human malignancies. Different alleles of this cytokine family may differentially affect IL-17 secretion. We sought to investigate the associat...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Disease Progression
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Association Studies
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Interleukin-17
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Receptors, Interleukin
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
