Epigenomics of autoimmune diseases

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 271-276

  Gupta, Bhawna ^a   Hawkins, R David ^b,c  

^a KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TURKU CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84924966095     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2015.18     Document Type: Review

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