TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 6, Issue 4 (June 2005)
Review
Real-time RT-PCR normalisation; strategies and considerations
J Huggett, K Dheda, S Bustin and A Zumla
Genes Immun 6: 279-284; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364190
Full Papers
Promoter region polymorphism of macrophage migration inhibitory factor is strong risk factor for young onset of extensive alopecia areata
T Shimizu, N Hizawa, A Honda, Y Zhao, R Abe, H Watanabe, J Nishihira, M Nishimura and H Shimizu
Genes Immun 6: 285-289; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364191
Linkage analysis of the genetic determinants of T-cell IL-4 secretion, and identification of Flj20274 as a putative candidate gene
P Choi, D Xanthaki, S J Rose, M Haywood, H Reiser and B J Morley
Genes Immun 6: 290-297; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364192
Does a central MHC gene in linkage disequilibrium with HLA-DRB1*0401 affect susceptibility to type 1 diabetes?
L Windsor, M Puschendorf, R Allcock, A Scott, D Sayer, R Kucharzak, I Gut, V McCann, E Davis, C Witt, F Christiansen and P Price
Genes Immun 6: 298-304; advance online publication, April 28, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364210
Allelic effects on gene regulation at the autoimmunity-predisposing CTLA4 locus: a re-evaluation of the 3' +6230G>A polymorphism
S M Anjos, W Shao, L Marchand and C Polychronakos
Genes Immun 6: 305-311; advance online publication, April 28, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364211
Investigation of malaria susceptibility determinants in the IFNG/IL26/IL22 genomic region
O Koch, K Rockett, M Jallow, M Pinder, F Sisay-Joof and D Kwiatkowski
Genes Immun 6: 312-318; advance online publication, April 28, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364214
Immune response in silico (IRIS): immune-specific genes identified from a compendium of microarray expression data
A R Abbas, D Baldwin, Y Ma, W Ouyang, A Gurney, F Martin, S Fong, M van Lookeren Campagne, P Godowski, P M Williams, A C Chan and H F Clark
Genes Immun 6: 319-331; advance online publication, March 24, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364173
Risk of trachomatous scarring and trichiasis in Gambians varies with SNP haplotypes at the interferon-gamma and interleukin-10 loci
A Natividad, J Wilson, O Koch, M J Holland, K Rockett, N Faal, O Jallow, H M Joof, M J Burton, N D E Alexander, D P Kwiatkowski, D C W Mabey and R L Bailey
Genes Immun 6: 332-340; advance online publication, March 24, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364182
A new Fc receptor homolog, FREB2, found in germinal center B cells
T J Wilson and M Colonna
Genes Immun 6: 341-346; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364185
Single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotypes in the IL10 region associated with HCV clearance
T K Oleksyk, C L Thio, A L Truelove, J J Goedert, S M Donfield, G D Kirk, D L Thomas, S J O'Brien and M W Smith
Genes Immun 6: 347-357; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364188
Association of interferon gamma and interleukin 10 genes with tuberculosis in Hong Kong Chinese
H W Tso, W K Ip, W P Chong, C M Tam, A K S Chiang and Y L Lau
Genes Immun 6: 358-363; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364189
Brief Communications
Taq-I polymorphism in 3'UTR of the IL-12B and association with IL-12p40 production from human PBMC
S Stanilova and L Miteva
Genes Immun 6: 364-366; advance online publication, April 28, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364213
Novel IL-6 haplotypes and disease association
M S Fife, E M Ogilvie, D Kelberman, J Samuel, A Gutierrez, S E Humphries and P Woo
Genes Immun 6: 367-370; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364186
Detection of the CCR5-
32 HIV resistance gene in Bronze Age skeletons
S Hummel, D Schmidt, B Kremeyer, B Herrmann and M Oppermann
Genes Immun 6: 371-374; advance online publication, April 7, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.gene.6364172
