Natural language indicators of differential gene regulation in the human immune system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 47, 2017, Pages 12554-12559

  Mehl, Matthias R ^a   Raison, Charles L ^b,c   Pace, Thaddeus W W ^d   Arevalo, Jesusa M G ^e,f   Cole, Steve W ^e,f  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomics; Psycholinguistics; Psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONSERVED TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE TO ADVERSITY GENE; DEPRESSION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; LEUKOCYTE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; SPEECH; STRESS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SPEECH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85034611714     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707373114     Document Type: Article

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