Primary biliary cirrhosis: Family stories

Autoimmune Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Smyk, Daniel ^a   Cholongitas, Evangelos ^b   Kriese, Stephen ^a   Rigopoulou, Eirini I ^c   Bogdanos, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQA2 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 12 RECEPTOR BETA2; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; STAT4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DESTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DAUGHTER; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 83355165384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20900430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4061/2011/189585     Document Type: Review

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