[To study whether functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in the regulatory elements of genes coding for the IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-1 receptor antagonist (RA) cytokines are associated with silicosis, we examined 318 Caucasian cases confirmed histopathologically with pulmonary silicosis and 163 controls without any apparent inflammation or other pulmonary disease.]. 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