Complement component C7 deficiency in two Spanish families

Immunology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 518-523

  Barroso, Sonia ^a   Sánchez, Berta ^a   Álvarez, Antonia José ^a   López Trascasa, Margarita ^b   Lanuza, Amparo ^c   Luque, Rafael ^a   Wichmann, Ingeborg ^a   Núñez Roldán, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

C7 deficiency; C7 gene mutations; Meningococcal infections

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C7;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C7 DEFICIENCY; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; ETHNOLOGY; EXON; FAMILY STUDY; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STOP CODON;

ADOLESCENT; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENT C7; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 10044284041     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2004.01997.x     Document Type: Article

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