The rs878081 polymorphism of AIRE gene increases the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in a Chinese Han population: a case-control study

The autoimmune regulator (AIRE), a transcriptional regulator expressed in medullary thymic epithelial cells, plays an important role in thymocyte education and negative selection. Several citations studying the association between the rs878081 exon polymorphism of the AIRE gene and the risk of rheum...

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Main Authors: Haoyu Yang, Jin Li, Lifeng Jiang, Xijia Jiang, Xindie Zhou, Nanwei Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2018-11-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2018001200612&lng=en&tlng=en