No association of interleukin-4 gene polymorphisms in Chinese patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Taiwan [2]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 871-872

  Huang, C M ^b   Wu, M C ^a   Wu, J Y ^a   Tsai, Fuu Jen ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Division of Allergy Immunology and Rheumatology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; INTERLEUKIN 4; DNA;

CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME ARM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ASIAN; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; DNA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 0036900434     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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