Genetic polymorphism in intron 6 of the LMP7 gene in Japanese and its association with sarcoidosis
1997
Genetic polymorphism in intron 6 of the LMP7 gene was investigated using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism in 90 unrelated healthy Japanese controls and 66 Japanese patients with sarcoidosis. Four alleles, including two new ones recently identified in Koreans, LMP7*C and LMP7*D, were found in the Japanese population. The frequency of LMP7*C in the sarcoidosis patients was higher than in the healthy controls. However, this difference might be explained by a secondary association with HLA-DRB1*08 in the HLA-DRB1 gene, which is thought to be the gene primarily responsible for susceptibility to sarcoidosis.
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