The influence of genetic variation on innate immune activation in an environment with high infectious pressure

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-108

  Boef, A G C ^a   May, L ^a   Van Bodegom, D ^a   Kuningas, M ^b   Eriksson, U K ^a   Westendorp, R G J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; cytokines; genetic variation; innate immunity; interleukin 10; tumour necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ZYMOSAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GHANA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84857790253     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2011.57     Document Type: Article

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