ea0029p1713 | Thyroid (non-cancer) | ICEECE2012
Anvari M.
, Khalilzadeh O.
, Esteghamati A.
The role of genetic factors in the pathogenesis of Graves disease (GD) is not clear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in pro-inflammatory cytokine genes and GD in Iranian patients. A casecontrol hospitalbased study was carried out on 107 GD patients and 140 healthy controls. Cytokine typing was performed by PCR with sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) assay. The allele and genotype frequencies of t...