Survey of Turkish systemic lupus erythematosus patients for a particular mutation of C1Q deficiency

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-77

  Topaloglu, Rezan ^a   Bakkaloglu, A ^a   Slingsby, J H ^c   Aydintug, O ^b   Besbas, N ^a   Saatci, U ^a   Walport, M J ^c  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C1q deficiency; Complement deficiency; Mutation; SLE

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; COMPLEMENT C1Q; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TURKEY;

EID: 0033975326     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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