Cloning of the APECED gene provides new insight into human autoimmunity

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-116

  Aaltonen, Johanna ^a,b   Björses, Petra ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

AIRE; APECED; Autoimmune disease; Nuclear protein; Positional cloning; Regulation of transcription

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; BINDING SITE; CANDIDIASIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA BINDING; DYSTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT; POLYENDOCRINOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0032920890     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853899708998786     Document Type: Short Survey

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