The interleukin-6 gene -174G>C and -572G>C promoter polymorphisms are related to cerebral aneurysms

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 915-917

  Morgan, Laleh ^a   Cooper, J ^b   Montgomery, H ^b   Kitchen, N ^a   Humphries, S E ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; CYSTEINE; GUANINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RISK FACTOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GUANINE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33746291057     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.081976     Document Type: Article

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