Genomewide linkage analysis of the granulomatous mitsuda reaction implicates chromosomal regions 2q35 and 17q21

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 196, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1248-1252

  Ranque, Brigitte ^a,b   Alter, Andrea ^c   Mira, Marcelo ^c,d   Nguyen, Van Thuc ^e   Vu, Hong Thai ^e   Nguyen, Thu Huong ^e   Nguyen, Ngoc Ba ^e   Pham, Xuan Khoa ^e   Schurr, Erwin ^c   Abel, Laurent ^a,b   Alcaïs, Alexandre ^a,b  

^a IMAGINE INSTITUTE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^e Hospital for Dermato Venereology   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MITSUDA SKIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SKIN GRANULOMA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN SENSITIZATION;

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LEPROSY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; VIETNAM;

EID: 35348850100     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521684     Document Type: Article

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