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SUBMITTER: Kosalka-Wegiel J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9145848 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kosałka-Węgiel Joanna J Lichołai Sabina S Dziedzina Sylwia S Milewski Mamert M Kuszmiersz Piotr P Rams Anna A Gąsior Jolanta J Matyja-Bednarczyk Aleksandra A Kwiatkowska Helena H Korkosz Mariusz M Siwiec Andżelika A Koźlik Paweł P Padjas Agnieszka A Sydor Wojciech W Dropiński Jerzy J Sanak Marek M Musiał Jacek J Bazan-Socha Stanisława S
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20220507 5
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. The aim of the study was to establish an association between TNF-α promoter variability and systemic sclerosis (SSc). The study included 43 SSc patients and 74 controls. Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs361525, rs1800629, rs1799724, and rs1799964) located at the promoter of the TNFA gene were genotyped using commercially available TaqMan allelic discriminati ...[more]