Heritability versus the role of the environment in autoimmunity

Journal of Autoimmunity

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 249-252

  Selmi, Carlo ^a,b   Lu, Qianjin ^c   Humble, Michael C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Exposure; Familiarity; Monozygotic twins; Tolerance breakdown

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER RISK; CELIAC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SIBLING; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SOMATIC MUTATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; ENVIRONMENT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SIBLINGS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84869886531     PISSN: 08968411     EISSN: 10959157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2012.07.011     Document Type: Review

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