results findings showed that the genotype -607a/a is associated with the susceptibility to chronic hepatitis b. furthermore, allele c at position -137 is suggested to play a protective role against development of chronic hbv infection. conclusions host genetic factors play an important role in determining the outcome of hbv infection. it is suggested that il-18 genotype -607 a/a is associated w...

Thesis Abstract Several cytokines are known to be involved in the pathogenesis of non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (NHL). Given importance understanding genetic predisposition NHL, this work was designed study impact IL-10 (-1082 G/A; rs1800896 and -819 C/T; rs1800871), IL-6 (-174 G/C; rs1800795) CD38 (184C/G; rs6449182) gene polymorphisms on susceptibility Egyptians NHL. Both loci IL10 were genotyped usi...

the aim of this study was to examine the association of 22 cytokine gene polymorphism in macedonians with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd). the sample of the population comprised of 301 normal respondents and 62 patients with copd. cytokine genotyping was performed by polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific priming (pcr-ssp). positive (susceptible) association was found bet...

background: pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines and polymorphisms of their genes have been described to be involved in the pathogenesis of recurrent miscarriage (rm). objective: to investigate the association between rm and five polymorphisms of cytokine genes, interleukin 10 (il-10), (-592 a/c, -819 c/t, -1082 a/g), il-6 (-174 c/g) and il-17 (-197 g/a) in iranian women. method: po...

BACKGROUND Sarcoidosis is a disease characterized by granuloma formation in many organs, but mostly in lung and lymph nodes. The immunopathogenic background of the disease is probably based on disregulation of immune response to different antigens. The imbalance of immune reactivity might be influenced by genetic background. In our study, we have investigated cytokine genetic polymorphisms in s...