Possible genetic association between interleukin-1α gene polymorphism and the severity of chronic polyarthritis

European Cytokine Network

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-36

  Jouvenne, Patricia ^a   Chaudhary, Adeel ^b   Buchs, Nicolas ^a   Di Giovine, Francesco S ^b   Duff, Gordon W ^b   Miossec, Pierre ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Destruction; Gene polymorphism; Interleukin 1 ; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC ARTHRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JOINT DESTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROMOTER REGION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032897221     PISSN: 11485493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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