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The association of polymorphisms (rs2227981 and rs10204525) of PDCD1 gene with susceptibility to human T-cell leukemia virus type 1.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Sept 2021
Hezave Yalda Amiri, Sharifi Zohreh, Ranjbar Kermani Fahime, Shahabi Majide
Abstract excerpt
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the first retrovirus as the causative agent of two serious diseases in human is known. Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is a regulatory protein that has an important role in immune system response and created exhaustion phenotype in T cells at chronic infections; therefore, it can impair anti-viral responses. Since the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in PD-1gene...
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