[As genetic factors have been implicated in its aetiology, in our study we investigated whether the promotor polymorphisms in three genes coding for inflammatory mediators interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-12 (IL-12), and interleukin-18 (IL-18) could be associated with susceptibility to sarcoidosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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