Functional Relevance for Associations between Genetic Variants and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Deng, Fei Yan ^a   Lei, Shu Feng ^a   Zhang, Yong Hong ^a   Zhang, Zeng Li ^a   Guo, Yu Fan ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HLA DQA1 GENE; HLA DQB1 GENE; HLA DQB2 GENE; HUMAN; IRF5 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 84872352709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053037     Document Type: Article

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