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Occurrence and clinical relevance of an interleukin-4 gene polymorphism in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Jun 1997
Vandenbroeck K, Martino G, Marrosu M, Consiglio A, Zaffaroni M, Vaccargiu S, Franciotta D, Ruggeri M, Comi G, Grimaldi L M
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An epistatic gene interaction has been advocated to explain disease susceptibility in multiple sclerosis (MS). Cytokine genes are possible candidates due to the central role played by cytokines in the regulation of the immune-mediated pathogenetic process leading to central nervous system demyelination in these patients. Since interleukin (IL)-4 gene polymorphisms have been associated with immune-mediated...
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