Three mutations in the paired homeodomain of PAX3 that cause waardenburg syndrome type 1

Human Heredity

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-41

  Morell, Robert ^a   Carey, Melisa L ^a   Lalwani, Anil K ^b   Friedman, Thomas B ^a   Asher, James H ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

PAX3; Waardenburg syndrome; WS1

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME;

EXONS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; WAARDENBURG'S SYNDROME;

EID: 0031015649     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000154387     Document Type: Article

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