Letter to Editor: MicroRNA Polymorphism-Related T Helper Type 17/Regulatory T-Cell Imbalance May Lead to Idiopathic Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

authors:

avatar Mehran Panahi ORCID 1 , * , avatar Setareh Jami 1

School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

how to cite: Panahi M, Jami S. Letter to Editor: MicroRNA Polymorphism-Related T Helper Type 17/Regulatory T-Cell Imbalance May Lead to Idiopathic Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. Gene Cell Tissue. 2019;6(4):e96671. https://doi.org/10.5812/gct.96671.

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