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Lack of Association between STAT4 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Iranian Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.
Fetal and pediatric pathology - 1 Jun 2017
Aslani Saeed, Mahmoudi Mahdi, Salmaninejad Arash, Poursani Shiva, Ziaee Vahid, Rezaei Nima
Abstract excerpt
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a common chronic systemic autoimmune disease in children. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of signal transducer and activator of transcription 4 (STAT4) gene are suspected to have association with the risk of autoimmune diseases. Previous investigations have indicated that the STAT4 rs7574865 T allele was significantly associated with rheumatoid arthritis. In this...
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