Group differences in proneness to inflammation

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1371-1380

  Pennington, Renee ^a   Gatenbee, Chandler ^a   Kennedy, Brett ^a   Harpending, Henry ^a   Cochran, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral and derived SNPs; Human evolution; Immunopathology; Inflammation; Race

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASPASE 12; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

AFRICA; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EUROPE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT MORTALITY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NONHUMAN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASPASE 12; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CYTOKINES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

EID: 70449569024     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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