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Genetic Case-Control Study for Eight Polymorphisms Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Saad Mohamed N, Mabrouk Mai S, Eldeib Ayman M, Shaker Olfat G
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease which has a significant socio-economic impact. The aim of the current study was to investigate eight candidate RA susceptibility loci to identify the associated variants in Egyptian population. Eight single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (MTHFR-C677T and A1298C, TGFβ1 T869C, TNFB A252G, and VDR-ApaI, BsmI, FokI, and TaqI) were tested by genotyping patients with...
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