Interleukin-4 receptor α polymorphisms in primary Sj∨gren syndrome [1]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 374-

  Ramos Casals, Manuel ^a   Font, J ^a   Brito Zeron, P ^a   Trejo, O ^a   Garcia Carrasco M ^a   Lozano, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-4; SJOGREN-LARSSON SYNDROME;

EID: 2342488832     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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