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TNF microsatellites in systemic lupus erythematosus-a high frequency of the TNFabc 2-3-1 haplotype in multicase SLE families.
Lupus - 1 Dec 1996
Sturfelt G, Hellmer G, Truedsson L
Abstract excerpt
TNFa, TNFb and TNFc microsatellites were analyzed in 102 SLE patients recruited from a defined area in Southern Sweden. Furthermore we studied 27 SLE patients belonging to 10 multiplex families in which a majority of the members were living within the same area in Southern Sweden. As a control population 98 healthy blood donors from the same region was used. The TNFa2 allele was found more often in the SLE...
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