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Tumor necrosis factor-α -308 A/G gene polymorphism in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: relation to disease activity, damage, and functional status.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Aug 2017
El Gazzar Iman I, Fathy Hanan M, Gheita Tamer A, Nour El-Din Abeer M, Rasheed Enas Abdel, Bassyouni Rasha H, Kenawy Sanaa A
Abstract excerpt
The study aims to evaluate the clinical significance of serum levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and -308 A/G promoter polymorphism in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) patients and find any association to the subsets, clinical and laboratory features, disease activity, and damage as well as functional disability. Forty-eight JIA children and 30 controls were included in the present study. Juvenile...
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