The y chromosome as a regulatory element shaping immune cell transcriptomes and susceptibility to autoimmune disease

Genome Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1474-1485

  Case, Laure K ^a   Wall, Emma H ^a   Dragon, Julie A ^a   Saligrama, Naresha ^a   Krementsov, Dimitry N ^a   Moussawi, Mohamad ^b   Zachary, James F ^c   Huber, Sally A ^b   Blankenhorn, Elizabeth P ^d   Teuscher, Cory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION STRAIN; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RBMY GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLY GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84883726999     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.156703.113     Document Type: Article

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