Sequencing the multiple sclerosis genome: More questions than answers

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 757-759

  Ramagopalan, 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

CD4 ANTIGEN; DNA;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; LETTER; MOSAICISM; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

DISEASES IN TWINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77955319883     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70117-4     Document Type: Letter

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