TNF-α promoter single nucleotide polymorphisms are markers of human ancestry

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 482-487

  Baena, A ^a   Leung, J Y ^a   Sullivan, A D ^b,h,i   Landires, I ^c   Vasquez Luna, N ^d   Quinones Berrocal J ^d   Fraser, P A ^a   Uko, G P ^a   Delgado, J C ^a   Clavijo, O P ^a   Thim, S ^e   Meshnick, S R ^b   Nyirenda, T ^f   Yunis, E J ^c   Goldfeld, A E ^a,g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Hospital Antonio Lorena Cusco   (Peru)

^e Cambodian Health Committee   (Cambodia)

^f University of Mangochi District Hospital   (Malawi)

^g CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

^h OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION   (United States)

ⁱ CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Evolution; Gene regulation; Haplotype; HLA; SNP

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HISPANIC; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 19044393917     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6363898     Document Type: Article

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