Twins: Mirrors of the immune system

Immunology Today

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 342-347

  Salvetti, Marco ^a   Ristori, Giovanni ^a   Bomprezzi, Roberto ^a   Pozzilli, Paolo ^b,c   Leslie, R David G ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TWIN CONCORDANCE; TWINS;

EID: 0034235827     PISSN: 01675699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5699(00)01658-3     Document Type: Review

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