Male Microchimerism in the Human Female Brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Chan, William F N ^a,d   Gurnot, Cécile ^a   Montine, Thomas J ^b   Sonnen, Joshua A ^b   Guthrie, Katherine A ^a   Nelson, J Lee ^a,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYS14 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROCHIMERISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CHIMERISM; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84866872477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045592     Document Type: Article

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