RNA-seq analysis of synovial fibroblasts brings new insights into rheumatoid arthritis

Cell and Bioscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Heruth, Daniel P ^a   Gibson, Margaret ^a   Grigoryev, Dmitry N ^a   Zhang, Li Qin ^a   Ye, Shui Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Next generation sequencing; Rheumatoid arthritis; RNA seq; Synovial fibroblasts; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873451584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20453701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-3701-2-43     Document Type: Article

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