Association of interleukin-18 gene variants with susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis in Iranian population

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4009-4014

  Moravej, Ali ^a   Rasouli, Manoochehr ^b   Asaei, Sadaf ^b   Kalani, Mehdi ^b,c   Mansoori, Yaser ^a  

^a FASA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genetic polymorphisms; Interleukin 18; Iran; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IL18 GENE; INFANT; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INHERITANCE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-18; IRAN; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84877759838     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2479-x     Document Type: Article

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