Cloning and characterization of human very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase cDNA, chromosomal assignment of the gene and identification in four patients of nine different mutations within the VLCAD gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 461-472

  Andresen, Brage Storstein ^a,b   Bross, Peter ^a,b   Vianey Saban, Christine ^c   Divry, Priscille ^c   Zabot, Marie Thérèse ^c   Roe, Charles R ^d   Nada, Mohamed A ^d   Byskov, Annette ^b,e   Kruse, Torben A ^b,e   Neve, Søren ^f   Kristiansen, Karsten ^f   Knudsen, Inga ^a,b   Corydon, Morten Juhl ^a,b   Gregersen, Niels ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Danish Ctr for Hum Genome Research   (Denmark)

^c HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17P; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE, LONG-CHAIN; ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029881587     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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