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The Impact of Promoter Variants in Interleukin-18 on Susceptibility to Ankylosing Spondylitis in a Sample of Iraqi Patients.
F1000Research - 1 Jan 2025
Jasim Ibtehal Kadhim, Saud Asmaa Mohammed
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Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory illness mainly influencing the axial skeleton. It is a multifactorial illness in which environmental and genetic parameters contribute to its cause, one of which is interleukins, including interleukin-18 (IL-18). Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs549908 and serum levels of...
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