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Genetic analysis of innate immunity in Behcet's disease identifies an association with IL-37 and IL-18RAP.
Scientific reports - 24 Oct 2016
Tan Handan, Deng Bolin, Yu Hongsong, Yang Yi, Ding Lin, Zhang Qi, Qin Jieying, Kijlstra Aize, Chen Rui, Yang Peizeng
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and the IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) family play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. This study aimed to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of IL-1 and IL-1R family genes with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) and Behcet's disease (BD) in Han Chinese. The case-control study was divided into two stages and included 419 VKH cases, 1063 BD...
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