Citation: Sohrab Najafipour, Abdolreza karami, Manoochehr Rasouli, Mehdi Kalani, Seyed-Jalal-Aldin Ashraf-Mansoori, Ali Moravej. Association of interleukin-2 gene variants (positions +114 and −384) and susceptibility to brucellosis in Iranian population[J]. AIMS Molecular Science, 2017, 4(1): 103-109. doi: 10.3934/molsci.2017.1.103
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