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Interleukin-6 gene polymorphisms in Egyptian children with febrile seizures: a case-control study.
Italian journal of pediatrics - 9 Mar 2016
Azab Seham F, Abdalhady Mohamed A, Ali Alshaymaa, Amin Ezzat K, Sarhan Dina T, Elhindawy Eman M, Almalky Mohamed A A, Elhewala Ahmed A, Salam Mohamed M A, Hashem Mustafa I A, Soliman Attia A, Akeel Nagwa E, Abdellatif Sawsan H, Ismail Sanaa M, Elsamad Nahla A, Arafat Manal S, Rass Anwar A, Basset Maha A A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Febrile seizures are the most common form of childhood seizures. Among pro-inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-6 is the key acute-phase cytokine. To date, only a few studies concerned the association of interleukin-6 gene polymorphisms with febrile seizures.In this study, we aimed to investigate 3 cytokine single-nucleotide polymorphisms situated at positions -174 (G/C), -572 (G/C), and -597 (G/A) in...
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