Exon-intron structure of the human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α4 subunit (CHRNA4)

Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 289-294

  Steinlein, Ortrud ^a   Weiland, Sigrid ^a   Stoodt, Jens ^a   Propping, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; MISSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0029866498     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0119     Document Type: Article

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