Chemokine gene polymorphisms associate with gender in patients with uveitis

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-45

  Chen, Y ^a   Vaughan, R W ^a   Kondeatis, E ^a   Fortune, F ^b   Graham, E M ^a   Stanford, M R ^a   Wallace, G R ^a,c  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemokine; Gender; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VASCULITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMPTOM; UVEITIS;

BEHCET SYNDROME; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CHEMOKINES; CHEMOKINES, CC; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RETINAL VASCULITIS; UVEITIS;

EID: 1642480883     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2004.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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