Analysis of the BTNL2 truncating splice site mutation in tuberculosis, leprosy and Crohn's disease

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 236-241

  Johnson, C M ^a   Traherne, J A ^a   Jamieson, S E ^a   Tremelling, M ^b   Bingham, S ^a   Parkes, M ^b   Blackwell, J M ^a   Trowsdale, J ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costimulation; Human; Infections bacterial; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TH1 CELL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALLELES; BRAZIL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LEPROSY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA SPLICE SITES; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

EID: 34247866328     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2006.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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