Genetics: Mapping autoimmune disease epigenetics: What's on the horizon?

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 131-132

  Brown, Chrysothemis C ^a   Wedderburn, Lucy R ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IL2RA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84924108353     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2014.210     Document Type: Short Survey

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