Single nucleotide polymorphisms of cytokine genes in the healthy Slovak population

International Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 273-280

  Javor, J ^a   Bucova, M ^a   Ferencik, S ^b   Grosse Wilde, H ^b   Buc, M ^a  

^a Comenius University ^*  (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; POLAND; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLOVAKIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOKINES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34447334816     PISSN: 17443121     EISSN: 1744313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313X.2007.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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