No luck replicating the immune response in twins

Genome Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Baxter, Alan G ^a   Hodgkin, Philip D ^b,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGIST; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TWINS;

EID: 84925305134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-015-0156-0     Document Type: Article

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