“…A number of studies of SNPs in the P2RX7 gene have been carried out over a period of more than a decade in order to examine a potential role of the human P2X7 receptor in the aetiology of a variety of clinical conditions, including chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CCL) [46,47,48,49,50,51], affective mood disorders [52,53,54,55], multiple sclerosis [56], chronic pain [14], systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis [57,58,59], childhood febrile seizure [60], ischemic stroke, ischemic heart disease [61], tuberculosis [62,63,64,65,66], sepsis [67], toxoplasmosis [68,69], osteoporosis, and bone fracture [70,71,72,73,74]. Table 1 provides a brief summary of the NS-SNPs that have been associated with or implicated in altering susceptibility to particular disease condition(s).…”