Article
No evidence for interleukin-4 gene conferring susceptibility to myasthenia gravis.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Dec 1998
Huang D, Xia S, Zhou Y, Pirskanen R, Liu L, Lefvert A K
Abstract excerpt
A variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) and a dinucleotide repeat polymorphism in IL-4 gene were examined in Swedish myasthenia gravis (MG) patients and ethnically matched healthy individuals. There were no associations between these polymorphisms and MG patients as a whole group or stratified...
Topics
- Adult
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Interleukin-4
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Reference Values