Molecular Bases of Combined Subtotal Deficiencies of C6 and C7: Their Effects in Combination with Other C6 and C7 Deficiencies

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3648-3657

  Fernie, Barbara A ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a,b   Orren, Ann ^a   Morgan, B Paul ^a,c   Potter, Paul C ^a,d   Platonov, Alexander E ^a,e   Vershinina, Irina V ^a,e   Shipulin, German A ^a,e   Lachmann, Peter J ^a   Hobart, Michael J ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e Central Research Institute of Epidemiology   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C6; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C7; DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPLEMENT C6; COMPLEMENT C7; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0030587963     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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