DNA demethylation in the human FOXP3 locus discriminates regulatory T cells from activated FOXP3(+) conventional T cells.

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Published in Eur J Immunol on September 01, 2007

Authors

Udo Baron1, Stefan Floess, Georg Wieczorek, Katrin Baumann, Andreas Grützkau, Jun Dong, Andreas Thiel, Tina J Boeld, Petra Hoffmann, Matthias Edinger, Ivana Türbachova, Alf Hamann, Sven Olek, Jochen Huehn

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1: Epiontis GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

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