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SUBMITTER: Aloui C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4837387 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aloui Chaker C Prigent Antoine A Tariket Sofiane S Sut Caroline C Fagan Jocelyne J Cognasse Fabrice F Chakroun Tahar T Garraud Olivier O Laradi Sandrine S
Scientific reports 20160420
Increased circulating soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) is commonly associated with inflammatory disorders. We aimed to investigate whether gene polymorphisms in CD40LG, CD40 and ITGA2 are associated with a propensity to secrete sCD40L; thus, we examined this issue at the level of human platelets, the principal source of sCD40L. We performed single polymorphism and haplotype analyses to test for the effect of twelve polymorphisms across the CD40LG, CD40 and ITGA2 genes in blood donors. ITGA2 presente ...[more]