Polymorphisms in genes of interleukin 12 and its receptors and their association with protection against severe malarial anaemia in children in western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Malarial anaemia is characterized by destruction of malaria infected red blood cells and suppression of erythropoiesis. Interleukin 12 (IL12) significantly boosts erythropoietic responses in murine models of malarial anaemia and decreased IL12 levels are associated with severe malarial a...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Lyna, Prather, Donald, Eng, Jodi Vanden, Crawford, Sara, Kariuki, Simon, ter Kuile, Feiko, Terlouw, Dianne, Nahlen, Bernard, Lal, Altaf A, Slutsker, Laurence, Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam, Shi, Ya Ping
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2858737/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20350312
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-87
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