Genetics of systemic sclerosis

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 443-451

  Bossini Castillo, Lara ^a   López Isac, Elena ^a   Mayes, Maureen D ^b   Martín, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; HLA; Polymorphism; Scleroderma; SNP; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

AUTOPHAGY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DETOXIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY;

GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 84940893399     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-015-0499-z     Document Type: Review

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