TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 2004)
Full Papers
The HLA-DR2 haplotype is associated with an increased proliferative response to the immunodominant CD4+ T-cell epitope in human interferon-
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M Stickler, A M Valdes, W Gebel, O J Razo, N Faravashi, R Chin, N Rochanayon and F A Harding
Genes Immun 5: 1-7; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364027
Functional correlates of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism in the colonic mucosa in ulcerative colitis FREE
M J Carter, S Jones, N J Camp, A Cox, J Mee, B Warren, G W Duff, A J Lobo and F S di Giovine
Genes Immun 5: 8-15; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364032
Mining microarray data to identify transcription factors expressed in naïve resting but not activated T lymphocytes FREE
C Argyropoulos, G C Nikiforidis, M Theodoropoulou, P Adamopoulos, S Boubali, T N Georgakopoulos, F Paliogianni, A G Papavassiliou and A Mouzaki
Genes Immun 5: 16-25; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364034
Regulation of murine Tap1 and Lmp2 genes in macrophages by interferon gamma is mediated by STAT1 and IRF-1 FREE
M Brucet, L Marqués, C Sebastián, J Lloberas and A Celada
Genes Immun 5: 26-35; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364035
Functional genetic polymorphisms in cytokines and metabolic genes as additional genetic markers for susceptibility to develop type 1 diabetes FREE
P Eerligh, B P C Koeleman, F Dudbridge, G Jan Bruining, B O Roep and M J Giphart
Genes Immun 5: 36-40; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364036
Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphism and severity of atopy in asthmatics FREE
I A Yang, S J Barton, S Rorke, J A Cakebread, T P Keith, J B Clough, S T Holgate and J W Holloway
Genes Immun 5: 41-45; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364037
Evidence for a cluster of genes on chromosome 17q11–q21 controlling susceptibility to tuberculosis and leprosy in Brazilians FREE
S E Jamieson, E N Miller, G F Black, C S Peacock, H J Cordell, J M M Howson, M-A Shaw, D Burgner, W Xu, Z Lins-Lainson, J J Shaw, F Ramos, F Silveira and J M Blackwell
Genes Immun 5: 46-57; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364029
An asthma-associated genetic variant of STAT6 predicts low burden of ascaris worm infestation FREE
G Peisong, X-Q Mao, T Enomoto, Z Feng, F Gloria-Bottini, E Bottini, T Shirakawa, D Sun and J M Hopkin
Genes Immun 5: 58-62; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364030
Brief Communications
Genome-wide scans for leprosy and tuberculosis susceptibility genes in Brazilians FREE
E N Miller, S E Jamieson, C Joberty, M Fakiola, D Hudson, C S Peacock, H J Cordell, M-A Shaw, Z Lins-Lainson, J J Shaw, F Ramos, F Silveira and J M Blackwell
Genes Immun 5: 63-67; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364031
Epistatic effects of genes encoding immunoglobulin GM allotypes and interleukin-6 on the production of autoantibodies to 60- and 65-kDa heat-shock proteins FREE
J P Pandey, Z Prohászka, A Veres, G Füst and M Hurme
Genes Immun 5: 68-71; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364033
A vulnerability locus to multiple sclerosis maps to 7p15 in a region syntenic to an EAE locus in the rat FREE
H Coppin, M-T Ribouchon, B Fontaine, G Edan, M Clanet and M-P Roth for the French Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Group
Genes Immun 5: 72-75; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364038
Discrimination of suballeles present at the TNFd microsatellite locus using induced heteroduplex analysis FREE
C F Spink, L J Keen, P G Middleton and J L Bidwell
Genes Immun 5: 76-79; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364039
Association of the gene encoding the 
-subunit of the muscle acetylcholine receptor (CHRND) with acquired autoimmune myasthenia gravis FREE
M Giraud, B Eymard, C Tranchant, P Gajdos and H-J Garchon
Genes Immun 5: 80-83; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364041
