TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 9, Issue 8 (December 2008)
Original Articles
Positive selection on mammalian MHC-DQ genes revisited from a multispecies perspective
M Amills, O Ramírez, A Tomàs, G Obexer-Ruff and O Vidal
Genes Immun 9: 651-658; advance online publication, August 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.62
A functional polymorphism of the vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor 1 gene correlates with the presence of HLA-B *2705 in Sardinia
F Paladini, E Cocco, A Cauli, I Cascino, A Vacca, F Belfiore, M T Fiorillo, A Mathieu and R Sorrentino
Genes Immun 9: 659-667; advance online publication, July 31, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.60
A novel transcript of mouse interleukin-20 receptor acts on glomerular mesangial cells as an aggravating factor in lupus nephritis
C-C Wei and M-S Chang
Genes Immun 9: 668-679; advance online publication, September 4, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.61
A transmembrane polymorphism in Fc
RIIb (FCGR2B) is associated with the production of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide autoantibodies in Taiwanese RA
J-Y Chen, C-M Wang, C-C Ma, L-A Hsu, H-H Ho, Y-J J Wu, S-N Kuo and J Wu
Genes Immun 9: 680-688; advance online publication, July 17, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.56
Expression levels of FAS are regulated through an evolutionary conserved element in intron 2, which modulates cystic fibrosis disease severity
V Kumar, T Becker, S Jansen, A van Barneveld, K Boztug, S Wölfl, B Tümmler and F Stanke
Genes Immun 9: 689-696; advance online publication, August 7, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.63
High frequencies of alleles MICA*020 and MICA*027 in Amerindians and evidence of positive selection on exon 3
L A Oliveira, F Ribas, M G Bicalho, L T Tsuneto and M L Petzl-Erler
Genes Immun 9: 697-705; advance online publication, September 11, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.65
Defining a transcriptional fingerprint of murine splenic B-cell development
I Debnath, K M Roundy, D M Dunn, R B Weiss, J J Weis and J H Weis
Genes Immun 9: 706-720; advance online publication, September 11, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.70
Short Communication
Initial description of the human NLRP3 promoter
J P Anderson, J L Mueller, A Misaghi, S Anderson, M Sivagnanam, R D Kolodner and H M Hoffman
Genes Immun 9: 721-726; advance online publication, August 21, 2008; doi:10.1038/gene.2008.66
