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Inflammatory bowel disease: no association between allele combinations of the interleukin (IL) I beta and IL-I receptor antagonist gene polymorphisms.
European journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 1998
Hacker U T, Bidlingmaier C, Gomolka M, Keller E, Eigler A, Hartmann G, Folwaczny C, Fricke H, Albert E, Loeschke K, Endres S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Interleukin 1 (IL-1) and its physiological antagonist interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1 ra) play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Polymorphisms in the genes coding for these cytokines, the restriction enzyme TaqI polymorphism for IL-1 beta and the variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism for IL-1 ra, have been shown to influence cytokine synthesis in...
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