Multiple sclerosis: Major histocompatibility complexity and antigen presentation

Genome Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Ramagopa, Sreeram V ^a,b   Ebers, George C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EPISTASIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77953425085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm105     Document Type: Note

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