Connective tissue diseases: Unravelling aetiology in male SLE-the X chromosome dose effect

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 310-312

  Zandman Goddard, Gisele ^a   Peeva, Elena ^b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED KINASE 1; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

ANEUPLOIDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SRY GENE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84861706534     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.44     Document Type: Review

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