Autoimmune disorders result from loss of epigenetic control following chromosome damage

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 590-598

  Brooks, Wesley H ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYAMINE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; DNA DAMAGE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STRESS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA DAMAGE; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYAMINES; PSEUDOGENES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 11144301789     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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