Editorial: X versus X - The fight for function within the female cell and the development of autoimmune thyroid disease

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6332-6333

  Davies, Terry F ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; Y CHROMOSOME;

FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 27744511561     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-2088     Document Type: Editorial

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