The unexplained female predominance of systemic lupus erythematosus: Clues from genetic and cytokine studies

Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-49

  Weckerle, Corinna E ^a   Niewold, Timothy B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Genetics; Interferon alpha; Sex; Systemic lupus erythematosus; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; OSTEOPONTIN; SEX HORMONE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; X CHROMOSOME;

AGE FACTORS; CHIMERISM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PREGNANCY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79951670346     PISSN: 10800549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12016-009-8192-4     Document Type: Article

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