Polymorphism of promotor sites of interleukins-4 and -10 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha genes in HIV-infected patients.

The distribution of allele variants of promotor sites of interleukins 4 (C-590T) and 10 (C-597A) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (G-308A) genes was studied in HIV-infected patients and normal subjects of the Europeoid population in Russia. Some deviations in the distribution of genotypes of the studied polymorphism were revealed in HIV-infected patients compared to the control. The distribution of genotypes in these groups is different for men and women, which is significant for inheritance of allele variants of the cytokine gene.