The Wilson disease gene: Spectrum of mutations and their consequences

Nature Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 210-217

  Thomas, Gordon R ^a,b   Forbes, John R ^a,b   Roberts, Eve A ^a,b   Walshe, John M ^c   Cox, Diane W ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; COPPER;

ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; WILSON DISEASE;

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATASE; AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028869945     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0295-210     Document Type: Article

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