Associations between Klinefelter's syndrome and autoimmune diseases: English national record linkage studies

Autoimmunity

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 125-128

  Seminog, Olena O ^a   Seminog, Alla B ^b   Yeates, David ^a   Goldacre, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STATE INSTITUTION NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Autoimmune diseases; chromosomal disorder; Klinefelter's syndrome; record linkage; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DAY HOSPITAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYROTOXICOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPLICATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABNORMAL KARYOTYPE; ADDISON DISEASE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 84924986174     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: 1607842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08916934.2014.968918     Document Type: Article

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