Cloning and functional analysis of the allelic polymorphism in the transcription regulatory region of interleukin-1α

Immunogenetics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 82-86

  Dominici, Roberto ^a,b,c,d,e   Cattaneo, Monica ^a,b,c,d,e   Malferrari, Giulia ^a,b,c,d,e   Archi, Davide ^a,b,c,d,e   Mariani, Claudio ^a,b,c,d,e   Grimaldi, Luigi ^a,b,c,d,e   Biunno, Ida ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d University of Milan ^*  (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allelic polymorphism; Functional analysis; Interleukin 1 promoter

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ALLELES; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSINE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036323332     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-002-0445-9     Document Type: Article

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