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Vitamin D receptor Fok1 & Bsm 1 Gene Polymorphisms in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Osteoarthritis: Autoimmune Inflammatory versus Degenerative Model.
The Egyptian journal of immunology - 1 Jun 2017
Ghaly Mona S, Badra Dahlia I, Dessouki Omar, Elmaraghy Nermine N, Hassan Ranya
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D deficiency has been described in SLE and OA. Low vitamin D level is prevalent in Egyptian SLE patients while controversial studies are present regarding its level in OA patients in Egypt. We investigated whether vitamin D receptor (VDR) genes Bsm1 and Fok1 polymorphisms could be used as genetic markers for the susceptibility to SLE and /or OA in a sample of Egyptian population. The study was carried out...
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