Thymic skewing of the CD4/CD8 ratio maps with the T-cell receptor α-chain locus

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 701-704

  Sim, Bee Cheng ^a   Aftahi, Najla ^a   Reilly, Christina ^a   Bogen, Bjarne ^b   Schwartz, Ronald H ^c   Gascoigne, Nicholas R J ^a   Lo, David ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PROTEIN BINDING; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0032482324     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70276-3     Document Type: Article

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