Modern genetics, ancient defenses, and potential therapies

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1263-1266

  Gregersen, Peter K ^a  

^a FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CARRIER PROTEIN; CASPASE 5; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 33; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN NALP1; PROTEIN NALP3; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CHROMOSOME 17P; CINCA SYNDROME; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOPLASM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EDITORIAL; FAMILIAL COLD AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MUCKLE WELLS SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VITILIGO;

EID: 33947507366     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe078017     Document Type: Editorial

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