The interleukin-4 receptor variant Q576R in hyper-IgE syndrome

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1073-1074

  Grimbacher, Bodo ^a   Holland, Steven M ^b   Puck, Jennifer M ^c  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^c National Human Genomics Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA E; LETTER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SKIN ABSCESS; SYNDROME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; JOB'S SYNDROME; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4;

EID: 0032499069     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199804093381516     Document Type: Article

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