Identical twins discordant for multiple sclerosis have a shift in their T-cell receptor repertoires

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 532-537

  Haegert, D G ^a   Galutira, D ^b   Murray, T J ^c   O'Connor, P ^d   Gadag, V ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CDR3 repertoire; Multiple sclerosis; Spectratyping

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD3; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0346121314     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2003.02327.x     Document Type: Article

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