Both polymorphic variable number of tandem repeats and autoimmune regulator modulate differential expression of insulin in human thymic epithelial cells

Diabetes

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 336-344

  Cai, Chuan Qi ^a,b   Zhang, Tao ^a,b   Breslin, Mary B ^a,b   Giraud, Matthieu ^c   Lan, Michael S ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; INSULIN; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENHANCER REGION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; THYMUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INSULIN; LUCIFERASES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 78751493721     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db10-0255     Document Type: Article

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