[As TLR9-null mice showed increased resistance to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and recent genetic investigations showed that T-1237C promoter polymorphism of TLR9, commonly implicated in autoimmune diseases, induces a deregulation of its expression, we performed an association study in a Portuguese population of 165 MS patients and unrelated healthy controls.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE