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Lack of association between an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism and systemic lupus erythematosus.
Disease markers - 1 Mar 1995
Danis V A, Millington M, Huang Q, Hyland V, Grennan D
Abstract excerpt
Non-MHC linked genes may contribute to genetic predisposition to the development of systemic lupus erythematosus. The possibility that cytokine genes may be involved was raised by the observation of increased frequency in expression of an uncommon allele of an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism and SLE in a recent U.K. study. We have not been able to show any significant differences in expression...
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