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Analysis of an interferon-gamma gene (IFNG) polymorphism in Danish and Finnish insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients and control subjects. Danish Study Group of Diabetes in Childhood.
Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research - 1 Feb 1997
Pociot F, Veijola R, Johannesen J, Hansen P M, Lorenzen T, Karlsen A E, Reijonen H, Knip M, Nerup J
Abstract excerpt
A CA-repeat polymorphism within the first intron of the interferon (IFN)-gamma gene was analyzed. This polymorphism was recently demonstrated to be associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in Japanese subjects. We typed 266 IDDM patients and 195 control subjects of Danish Caucasoid origin. No significant differences in allele or genotype frequencies between patients and control were observed. In...
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