Lack of association between the promoter polymorphisms at positions -308 and -238 of the tumor necrosis factor alpha gene and psoriasis vulgaris in Japanese patients

Dermatology

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 371-374

  Tsunemi, Yuichiro ^a   Nishibu, Akiko ^b   Saeki, Hidehisa ^a   Oyama, Noritaka ^b   Nakamura, Koichiro ^b   Kishimoto, Megumi ^a   Mitsui, Hiroshi ^a   Tada, Yayoi ^a   Torii, Hideshi ^a   Komine, Mayumi ^a   Asahina, Akihiko ^a   Kaneko, Fumio ^b   Tamaki, Kunihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese; Psoriasis vulgaris; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSORIASIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 10744228446     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074117     Document Type: Article

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