Gene expression in peripheral blood leukocytes in monozygotic twins discordant for chronic fatigue: No evidence of a biomarker

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Byrnes, Andrea ^a,b   Jacks, Andreas ^c   Dahlman Wright, Karin ^c   Evengard, Birgitta ^d   Wright, Fred A ^b   Pedersen, Nancy L ^c   Sullivan, Patrick F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; PROTEIN ANKLE2; PROTEIN BLKE; PROTEIN BRD1; PROTEIN CPA3; PROTEIN DCTN1; PROTEIN ORC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TWIN DISCORDANCE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 67149128101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005805     Document Type: Article

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