Association of IL16 polymorphisms with periodontitis in Brazilians: A case- control study

• Victor Hugo Souza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victor Hugo Souza, Ana Maria Sell

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victoruem@gmail.com

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6620-540X

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• Jeane Eliete Laguila Visentainer ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Joana Maira Valentini Zacarias ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Josiane Bazzo Alencar ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Patrícia Yumeko Tsuneto ,

  Roles Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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• Cléverson Oliveira Silva ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Dentistry, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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• Samira Salmeron ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ingá University Center, Maringá, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6677-5066

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• Cristiane Maria Colli ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6899-7519

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• Ana Maria Sell

  Contributed equally to this work with: Victor Hugo Souza, Ana Maria Sell

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Post-Graduation Program in Biosciences and Physiopathology, Department of Clinical Analysis and Biomedicine, and Laboratory of Immunogenetics, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

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