The variable immunological self: Genetic variation and nongenetic noise in Aire-regulated transcription

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 15860-15865

  Venanzi, Emily S ^a   Melamed, Rachel ^a   Mathis, Diane ^a   Benoist, Christophe ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune regulator; Gene expression; Immunological tolerance; Microarray; Thymus

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TISSUE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL SELECTION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SELF TOLERANCE; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MUS;

EID: 56749105120     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808070105     Document Type: Article

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