Polymorphism of IFN-γ gene and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 2334-2338

  Horie, Yukihiro ^a   Kitaichi, Nobuyoshi ^a   Takemoto, Yuko ^a   Namba, Kenichi ^a   Yoshida, Kazuhiko ^a   Hirose, Shigeto ^b   Hasumi, Yukiko ^c   Ota, Masao ^d   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^e   Mizuki, Nobuhisa ^c   Ohno, Shigeaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Shinohara Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CHOROIDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; INTRON; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUMMULAR KERATITIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN DISEASE; TINNITUS; VITILIGO; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UVEOMENINGOENCEPHALITIC SYNDROME;

EID: 37549055779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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