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TNF-α -308G/A gene polymorphism in bullous pemphigoid and alopecia areata.
Human antibodies - 1 Jan 2018
Moravvej Hamideh, Tabatabaei-Panah Pardis-Sadat, Ebrahimi Elaheh, Esmaeili Nafiseh, Ghaderian Sayyed Mohammad Hossein, Ludwig Ralf J, Akbarzadeh Reza
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: TNF-α -308G/A polymorphism has been investigated in few studies for an association with susceptibility to bullous pemphigoid (BP) and alopecia areata (AA). Yet, these findings had so far not been independently replicated, and no data on a possible association of TNFα -308G/A polymorphism with these diseases in Iranian population were available. OBJECTIVES: In the present study, a possible effect of...
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