Constitutional RB1-gene mutations in patients with isolated unilateral retinoblastoma

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 282-294

  Lohmann, Dietmar R ^a   Gerick, Martin ^a   Brandt, Birgit ^a   Oelschläger, Ulrich ^a   Lorenz, Birgit ^b   Passarge, Eberhard ^a   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETERODUPLEX; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0030881844     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514845     Document Type: Article

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