Autoimmune renal disease and tumour necrosis factor beta gene polymorphism.

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Autoimmune renal disease and tumour necrosis factor beta gene polymorphism.

Clinical nephrology - 1 Aug 1993

Medcraft J, Hitman G A, Sachs J A, Whichelow C E, Raafat I, Moore R H

Abstract excerpt

The genes encoding tumour necrosis factors (TNF) are located within the major histocompatibility complex. Since TNF may be involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease the purpose of the present study was to investigate TNF beta gene polymorphism in two types of immune complex mediated glom...

Topics

Alleles
Autoimmune Diseases
DNA
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Genotype
Glomerulonephritis, IGA
Glomerulonephritis, Membranous
Haplotypes
Humans
Linkage Disequilibrium
Lymphotoxin-alpha
Major Histocompatibility Complex
Polymorphism, Genetic

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