Selection against mutant alleles in blood leukocytes is a consistent feature in Incontinentia Pigmenti Type 2

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1777-1783

  Parrish, Julia E ^a   Scheuerle, Angela E ^b   Lewis, Richard A ^a   Levy, Moise L ^a   Nelson, David L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; LETHALITY; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADULT; ALLELES; CELL LINE; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SKIN; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029846444     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.11.1777     Document Type: Article

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