. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Because IL-1alpha and IL-1beta, and the anti-inflammatory competitive inhibitor, IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra), have been implicated in the pathogenesis of myositis, we assessed the role of variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphisms of the IL-1Ra gene (IL-1RN) in the aetiology of JIIM: IL-1RN VNTR polymorphisms were performed on 250 JIIM patients and 471 race-matched controls and were correlated with clinical characteristics.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2013-07-24"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations manually curated."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - CURATED"@en . "2014-10-02T12:32:07+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .