Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7302, 2010, Pages 113-117

  Petukhova, Lynn ^a   Duvic, Madeleine ^b   Hordinsky, Maria ^c   Norris, David ^d   Price, Vera ^e   Shimomura, Yutaka ^a   Kim, Hyunmi ^a   Singh, Pallavi ^a   Lee, Annette ^f   Chen, Wei V ^b   Meyer, Katja C ^g   Paus, Ralf ^g,h   Jahoda, Colin A B ⁱ   Amos, Christopher I ^b   Gregersen, Peter K ^f   Christiano, Angela M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR A; INTERLEUKIN 21; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LIGAND; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D; PEROXIREDOXIN 5; PROTEIN; STX17 PROTEIN; UL16 BINDING PROTEIN; ULBP3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 4;

ANTIGEN; CHROMOSOME; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; IMMUNITY; POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA AREATA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q25.1; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DERMIS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INNATE IMMUNITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SCALP; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANTIGENS, CD; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY K; PEROXIREDOXINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

EID: 77954223152     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09114     Document Type: Article

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