Human clinical phenotype associated with FOXNI mutations

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 665, Issue , 2009, Pages 195-206

  Pignata, Claudio ^a   Fusco, Anna ^b   Amorosi, Stefania ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN FOXN1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHN PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FOXN1 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NAIL DYSTROPHY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SKIN EPITHELIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; REVIEW; SKIN;

MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 77952482444     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1599-3_15     Document Type: Article

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