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Variations in measles vaccine-specific humoral immunity by polymorphisms in SLAM and CD46 measles virus receptors.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Sept 2007
Dhiman Neelam, Poland Gregory A, Cunningham Julie M, Jacobson Robert M, Ovsyannikova Inna G, Vierkant Robert A, Wu Yanhong, Pankratz V Shane
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Measles infection requires 2 cellular receptors, signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) and CD46. Known and novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in SLAM and CD46 genes might influence the immune response to measles vaccine. OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify SNP associa...
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