Interleukin-18 promoter polymorphism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 415-418

  Pawlik, A ^a   Kurzawski, M ^a   Czerny, B ^a   Gawronska Szklarz, B ^a   Drozdzik, M ^a   Herczynska, M ^b  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Department of General and Transplantation Surgery   (Poland)

Author keywords

Interleukin 18; Polymorphism; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EROSION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-18; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646510270     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2006.00582.x     Document Type: Article

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