Association between the severity of Hashimoto's disease and the functional +874A/T polymorphism in the interferon-γ gene

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 473-478

  Ito, Chisato ^a   Watanabe, Mikio ^a   Okuda, Noriko ^a   Watanabe, Chikami ^a   Iwatani, Yoshinori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease severity; Ethnic difference; IFN ; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Type 1 helper T cell

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EUTHYROIDISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; REMISSION;

AUTOANTIBODIES; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 33748450698     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K06-015     Document Type: Article

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