Insulin expression in human thymus is modulated by INS VNTR alleles at the IDDM2 locus

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-292

  Vafiadis, Petros ^a   Bennett, Simon T ^b   Todd, John A ^b   Nadeau, Joseph ^c   Grabs, Rosemarie ^a   Goodyer, Cynthia G ^a   Wickramasinghe, Saman ^a   Colle, Eleanor ^a   Polychronakos, Constantin ^a,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; INSULIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMUS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ADULT; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INSULIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MURIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031018819     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0397-289     Document Type: Article

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