Functional IL6R 358Ala allele impairs classical IL-6 receptor signaling and influences risk of diverse inflammatory diseases.

Functional IL6R 358Ala allele impairs classical IL-6 receptor signaling and influences risk of diverse inflammatory diseases.

Inflammation, which is directly regulated by interleukin-6 (IL-6) signaling, is implicated in the etiology of several chronic diseases. Although a common, non-synonymous variant in the IL-6 receptor gene (IL6R Asp358Ala; rs2228145 A>C) is associated with the risk of several common diseases, with...

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Main Authors: Ricardo C Ferreira, Daniel F Freitag, Antony J Cutler, Joanna M M Howson, Daniel B Rainbow, Deborah J Smyth, Stephen Kaptoge, Pamela Clarke, Charlotte Boreham, Richard M Coulson, Marcin L Pekalski, Wei-Min Chen, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Stephen S Rich, Adam S Butterworth, Anders Malarstig, John Danesh, John A Todd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1003444&type=printable
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