Clinical value of ACE genotyping in diagnosis of sarcoidosis

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9065, 1997, Pages 1602-1603

  Sharma, Pankaj ^a   Smith, Ian ^b   Maguire, Gerald ^b   Stewart, Susan ^b   Shneerson, John ^b   Brown, Morris J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0030941312     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61631-5     Document Type: Article

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