Defense strategies and immunity-related genes

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-17

  Trowsdale, John ^a   Parham, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Genetics; Immunity; Infection

Indexed keywords

FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KILLER CELL ACTIVATING RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CLEARANCE; COMMENSALISM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 1542377379     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200324693     Document Type: Short Survey

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