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Relationship of serum HLA-B alleles and TNF-α with rheumatic heart disease
Turkish journal of medical sciences - 16 Aug 2018
Eyiol Azmi, Yayla Çağrı, Ünlü Serkan, Tufan Abdurrahman, Cemri Mustafa, Yalçın Rıdvan, Boyacı Bülent
Abstract excerpt
Background/aim: Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Genetic studies have determined that the immune response in rheumatic heart disease is genetically controlled and that there is a close relationship between the gene of concern and the class II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene. The aim of this study was to...
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