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SUBMITTER: Kim EH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3055064 | biostudies-other | 2003 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kim Eun Hee EH Mok Jee Won JW Bang Dong Sik DS Lee Eun-So ES Lee Sung Nack SN Park Kyung Sook KS
Journal of Korean medical science 20030601 3
Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is expressed on vascular endothelial cells and its expression increases during the inflammatory response in patients with active Behcet's disease (BD). The ICAM1 gene mutations are associated with BD in Caucasians, but clinical features of the mutation phenotype are unknown. We analyzed ICAM1 polymorphisms in Korean BD patients to determine if there was an association between particular mutations and clinical symptoms. The prevalence of ICAM1R241G and I ...[more]