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Association between polymorphisms in Interleukin-16 gene and risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Nov 2015
Anvar Nazanin Esmaeili, Saliminejad Kioomars, Ohadi Mina, Kamali Koorosh, Daneshmand Parvaneh, Khorshid Hamid Reza Khorram
Abstract excerpt
Cytokines play important roles in the inflammation pathways. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an inflammatory disease, and it is suggested that cytokines are able to influence AD. We investigated the association between IL16 polymorphisms and risk of AD in an Iranian population. The case group consisted of 144 individuals with AD and the control group included 173 healthy individuals. Genotyping of the IL16 rs4072111...
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