Article
Association of PTPN22 rs2476601 Polymorphism with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Celiac Disease in Khuzestan Province, Southwestern Iran.
Iranian biomedical journal - 1 Jan 2017
Abbasi Zahra, Kazemi Nezhad Seyed Reza, Pourmahdi-Broojeni Mahdi, Rajaei Elham
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2476601 within protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 22 gene (PTPN22) has been shown to be a risk factor for different autoimmune diseases. This study explored the association of 1858 C/T SNP with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and celiac disease (CD) in a region covering south-west of Iran. METHODS: Totally, 52 patients with CD, 120 patients with RA, and 120...
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