Breakage in the SNRPN locus in a balanced 46,XY,t(15;19) Prader-Willi syndrome patient

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 517-524

  Sun, Yongming ^a   Nicholls, Robert D ^b,c   Butler, Merlin G ^d   Saitoh, Shinji ^b,c,e   Hainline, Bryan E ^a   Palmer, Catherine G ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 15; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISOMY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXON; FIBROBLAST; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029985822     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.4.517     Document Type: Article

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