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Clinical significance of serum TNFα and -308 G/A promoter polymorphism and serum Il-6 and -174 G/C promoter polymorphism in systemic lupus erythematosus patients
2012-06-28
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disorder of immune regulation where cytokine imbalance and genetic factors are implicated in its pathogenesis. To evaluate the clinical significance of serum levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) and its -308 G/A promoter polymorphism as well as the IL-6 and -174 promoter polymorphism in SLE patients and find any association to the clinical and laboratory features as...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 56e810e4-39a0-5a3e-849d-f5727bd74ae9
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ejr.2012.05.003