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Meta-analysis for Association of Interleukin 4 VNTR Polymorphism with Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk and Severity.
Biochemical genetics - 1 Jun 2023
Giri Prashant S, Dwivedi Mitesh
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by severe joint pain. There are conflicting results for the association of Interleukin 4 (IL4) variable number tandem repeats (VNTR; rs8179190) polymorphism with RA. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis of the available studies to investigate the association of IL4 VNTR polymorphism with RA risk and severity in the overall populations and...
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