X chromosome reactivation perturbs intracellular self/not-self discrimination

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 525-528

  Forsdyke, Donald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Dosage compensation; Double stranded RNA; Protein aggregation; Systemic lupus erythematosus; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SELF TOLERANCE;

EID: 70349745364     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2009.39     Document Type: Article

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