Association study of interleukin-12A gene polymorphisms with Graves' disease in two Chinese populations

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-129

  Guo, Ting ^a   Yang, Shuyu ^b   Liu, Nan ^a   Wang, Shu ^a   Cui, Bin ^a   Ning, Guang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12P35;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAVES DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P35; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650332998     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03905.x     Document Type: Article

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