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SUBMITTER: Safonova AV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3347598 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Safonova A V AV Petrin A N AN Arutyunov S D SD Tsarev V N VN Akulenko L A LA Zorina A O AO Rebrikov D V DV Rubanovich A V AV Borinskaya S A SA Yankovsky N K NK
Acta naturae 20110101 1
Gingivitis and periodontitis are chronic inflammatory diseases of the periodontal tissue in humans caused by both environmental and genetic factors. The human cytokine genes that regulate the immune response may play an important role in the development of these chronic inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study is to analyze the allele status of eight human cytokine genes and to associate it with the inflammation of periodontal tissue in humans. A total of 296 unrelated males of Russian origi ...[more]