Skewed T-cell receptor repertoire in genetically identical twins correlates with multiple sclerosis

Nature

Volumn 364, Issue 6434, 1993, Pages 243-247

  Utz, Ursula ^a   Biddison, William E ^a   McFarland, Henry F ^a   McFarlin, Dale E ^a   Flerlage, Marjorie ^a   Martin, Roland ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; TETANUS TOXOID; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0027170328     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/364243a0     Document Type: Article

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