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Targeting IL-6 promoter polymorphism −174G/C should be dependent on ethnicity

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This work was partly supported by grants from the key program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (30830089) and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (11040606M183).

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    Wang-Dong Xu, Yu-Jing Zhang, Hai-Feng Pan & Dong-Qing Ye

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Xu, WD., Zhang, YJ., Pan, HF. et al. Targeting IL-6 promoter polymorphism −174G/C should be dependent on ethnicity. Clin Rheumatol 31, 191–192 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-011-1867-2

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