FUT2: Filling the gap between genes and environment in Behçet's disease?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 618-624

  Xavier, Joana M ^a,b   Shahram, Farhad ^c   Sousa, Inês ^a,b   Davatchi, Fereydoun ^c   Matos, Mafalda ^a,b   Abdollahi, Bahar Sadeghi ^c   Sobral, João ^a,b   Nadji, Abdolhadi ^c   Oliveira, Manuela ^d   Ghaderibarim, Fahmida ^c   Shafiee, Niloofar Mojarad ^c   Oliveira, Sofia A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSIDE 2-ALPHA-L-FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HLA B ANTIGEN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 1P; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DPH5 GENE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; FEMALE; FUT2 GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HLA B GENE; HUMAN; IRANIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YY1P2 GENE; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 1; GENETICS; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84922356203     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204475     Document Type: Article

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