Positional cloning of the fanconi anaemia group A gene

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 324-328

  Apostolou, Sinoula ^a   Whitmore, Scott A ^a   Crawford, Joanna ^a   Lennon, Gregory ^b   Sutherland, Grant R ^a   Callen, David F ^a   Ianzano, Leonarda ^c   Savino, Maria ^c   D'apolito, Maria ^c   Notarangelo, Angelo ^c   Memeo, Elena ^c   Piemontese, Maria Rosaria ^c   Zelante, Leopoldo ^c   Savoia, Anna ^c   Gibson, Rachel A ^d   Tipping, Alex J ^d   Morgan, Neil V ^d   Hassock, Sheila ^d   Jansen, Stander ^e   de Ravel, Thorny J ^f   Van Berkel, Carola ^g   Pronk, Jan C ^g   Easton, Douglas F ^h   Mathew, Christopher G ^d   Levran, Orna ⁱ   Verlander, Peter C ⁱ   Batish, Sat Dev ⁱ   Erlich, Tamar ⁱ   Auerbach, Arleen D ⁱ   Cleton Fansen, Anne Marie ^j   Moerland, Elna W ^j   Cornelisse, Cees J ^j   Doggett, Norman A ^k   Deaven, Larry L ^k   Moyzis, Robert K ^k   more..

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^k LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FANCC PROTEIN, HUMAN; FANCONI ANEMIA GROUP C PROTEIN; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE DELETION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FANCONI ANEMIA; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP C PROTEIN; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030293337     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1196-324     Document Type: Letter

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