Month of birth and thymic output

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 527-528

  Disanto, Giulio ^a   Watson, Corey T ^a   Meier, Ute C ^b   Ebers, George C ^a   Giovannoni, Gavin ^b   Ramagopalan, Sreeram V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

BIRTH; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EFFECTOR CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RISK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; MONTH OF BIRTH; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THYMUS FUNCTION;

EID: 84876106524     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.2116     Document Type: Letter

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