Familial scleroderma: Do environmental factors, genes and microchimerism share the same relevance?

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-14

  Del Rosso, A ^a   Pignone, A ^a   Giacomelli, R ^a,b   Matucci Cerinic, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HORMONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA;

CHIMERA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 0034852721     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2001.00152.x     Document Type: Editorial

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