The mouse snell’s waltzer deafness gene encodes an unconventional myosin required for structural integrity of inner ear hair cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 369-375

  Avraham, Karen B ^a   Hasson, Tama ^b   Steel, Karen P ^c   Kingsley, David M ^d   Russell, Liane B ^e   Mooseker, Mark S ^b   Copeland, Neal G ^a   Jenkins, Nancy A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISORDER; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INNER EAR; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEAFNESS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES, RECESSIVE; HAIR CELLS, INNER; HUMAN; INVERSION (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; ORGAN OF CORTI; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028803112     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1295-369     Document Type: Article

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