Interleukin18 gene IL18 promoter polymorphisms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-165

  Pawlik, A ^a   Kurzawski, M ^a   Drozdzik, M ^a   Dziedziejko, V ^a   Safranow, K ^a   Herczynska, M ^b  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Department of General and Transplantation Surgery   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERLEUKIN-18; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65649130854     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: 15027732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009740802600748     Document Type: Article

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