Unraveling the genetic component of systemic sclerosis

Human Genetics

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1023-1037

  Martín, José Ezequiel ^a   Bossini Castillo, Lara ^a   Martín, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DPB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 5; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MACROPHAGE ELASTASE; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; OX40 LIGAND; RHOB GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84862765265     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-011-1137-z     Document Type: Review

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