Association of sister chromatid exchange frequencies in patients with ankylosing spondylitis with and without HLA-B27

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 775-777

  Ikbal, M ^a   Ezirmik, N ^a   Tos, T ^a   Pirim, I ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DNA FRAGMENT; HLA B27 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HLA-B27 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 0038336658     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.8.775     Document Type: Article

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