Association between familial deficiency of mannose-binding lectin and mutations in the corresponding gene and promoter region

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 806-807

  Salimans, M M M ^a   Bax, W A ^a   Stegeman, F ^a   Van Deuren, M ^b   Bartelink, A K M ^a   Van Dijk, H ^a,c  

^a MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN;

ARTICLE; CODON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MBL GENE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY;

FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 3242664392     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.4.806-807.2004     Document Type: Article

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