Assessing the impact of FoxP3 and Vav1 gene polymorphisms on kidney allograft survival.

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FoxP3 and Vav1 are known to be involved in the development of regulatory T cells. Two polymorphic sites in the FoxP3 promoter (rs3761548 and a (GT) n -dinucleotide repeat) and 2 single nucleotide polymorphisms in intron 1 of the Vav1 gene (rs2546133 and rs2617822) have been shown to correlate with gene expression levels. We investigated a potential impact of FoxP3 and Vav1 genetic variants on kidney allograft...