Genomics-based approaches to gene discovery in innate immunity

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 190, Issue , 2002, Pages 137-145

  Scheetz, Todd E ^c   Bartlett, Jennifer A ^a,b   Walters, Jesse D ^c   Schutte, Brian C ^a,b   Casavant, Thomas L ^b,c   McCray Jr , Paul B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036950531     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-065X.2002.19010.x     Document Type: Review

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