Systematic Analysis of Cell-to-Cell Expression Variation of T Lymphocytes in a Human Cohort Identifies Aging and Genetic Associations

Immunity

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1162-1175

  Lu, Yong ^a   Biancotto, Angelique ^b   Cheung, Foo ^b   Remmers, Elaine ^c   Shah, Naisha ^a   McCoy, J Philip ^b,d   Tsang, John S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD27 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD38 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; HLA DR ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL TO CELL EXPRESSION VARIATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EFFECTOR CELL; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIMARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RNA SEQUENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; IMMUNOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84999700058     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.10.025     Document Type: Article

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