FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE PRESENTS

THE SPECIAL ISSUE


GENETICS, STRUCTURES AND DISEASE ASSOCIATIONS OF THE HUMAN CENTRAL MHC

Managing editors: Drs Yung Yu and Zhenyu Yang

  

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: The Human Major Histocompatibility Complex Class III Region: the Beginning of a New Era
Zhenyu Yang and C. Yung Yu

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, Special issue, 2001]

Role of major histocompatibility complex class III genes in recurrent spontaneous abortions
Marja-Liisa Lokki and Tarja Laitinen

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, e23-29, August 1, 2001]

Glomerulonephritis associated with deficiencies and polymorphisms of complement components encoded in the class III region of the MHC
Thomas R. Welch and Marie Frenzke

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d898-903, August 1, 2001]

Genetics of human complement component C4 and evolution the central MHC
O. Patricia Martinez, Natalie Longman-Jacobsen, Richard Davies, Erwin K. Chung, Yan Yang, Silvana Gaudieri, Roger L. Dawkins,and C. Yung Yu

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d904-913, August 1, 2001]

Genetic organization of the human MHC class III region
Caroline M. Milner and R. Duncan Campbell

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d914-926, August 1, 2001]

Features of the two gene pairs RD-SKI2W and DOM3Z-RP1 located between complement component genes factor B and C4 at the MHC class III region
Zhenyu Yang, Xiaodong Qu and C. Yung Yu

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d927-935, August 1, 2001]

The association of MHC genes with autism
Anthony R. Torres, Alma Maciulis, Dennis Odell

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d936-943, August 1, 2001]

The structure and functions of human lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferases
David W. Leung

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d944-953, Augąst 1, 2001]

Human MHC class III and IV genes and disease associations
Jeffrey R. Gruen and Sherman M. Weissman

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d960-972, August 1, 2001]

Ethnic diversity of class III genes in autoimmune disease
Joann M. Moulds

[Frontiers in Bioscience d986-991, August 1, 2001]

Receptor for age (RAGE) is a gene within the major histocompatibility class III region: implications for host response mechanisms in homeostasis and chronic disease
Ann Marie Schmidt, and David M Stern

[Frontiers in Bioscience 6, d1151-1160, October 1, 2001]