Reduced FOXP3 expression causes IPEX syndrome onset: An implication from an IPEX patient and his disease-free twin brother

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 178-180

  Wang, Jingxue ^a   Li, Xiaowen ^b   Jia, Zhengcai ^a   Tian, Yi ^a   Yu, Jialin ^b   Bao, Lei ^b   Wu, Yuzhang ^a   Ni, Bing ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FOXP3 expression; Gene mutations; Intron 1; IPEX syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROXINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; FINGER; HEPATITIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTESTINE PERFORATION; IPEX SYNDROME; LETTER; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOE; TWINS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIBODIES; FATAL OUTCOME; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTRONS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUTATION; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TWINS;

EID: 77956616636     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.07.006     Document Type: Letter

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