AIRE-mutations and autoimmune disease

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2016, Pages 8-15

  Bruserud, Øyvind ^a   Oftedal, Bergithe E ^a   Wolff, Anette B ^a   Husebye, Eystein S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CARD PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PHD1 PROTEIN; SAND PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AIRE GENE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY CANDIDIASIS ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL SELECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS DISEASE; VITILIGO; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN MEDIATED CLONAL SELECTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; POLYENDOCRINOPATHY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONAL SELECTION, ANTIGEN-MEDIATED; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MUTATION; POLYENDOCRINOPATHIES, AUTOIMMUNE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYMUS GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VITILIGO;

EID: 84982854553     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: 18790372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2016.07.003     Document Type: Review

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