Interleukin-13 genetic polymorphisms in Singapore Chinese children correlate with long-term outcome of minimal-change disease

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 728-734

  Wei, Chang Li ^a   Cheung, Wai ^a   Heng, Chew Kiat ^a   Arty, Novi ^a   Chong, Samuel S ^a   Lee, Bee Wah ^a   Puah, Ken Lee ^a   Yap, Hui Kim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Genetic polymorphism; Interleukin 13; Minimal change nephrotic syndrome; Prognosis; Singapore Chinese children

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 13; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RELAPSE; SINGAPORE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-13; MALE; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SINGAPORE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17144409438     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh648     Document Type: Article

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