A novel human homologue of the Drosophila frizzled wnt receptor gene binds wingless protein and is in the Williams syndrome deletion at 7q11.23

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 465-472

  Wang, Yu Ker ^a   Samos, Cindy Harryman ^a,b   Peoples, Risa ^b   Pérez Jurado, Luis A ^c   Nusse, Roel ^a,b   Francke, Uta ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 7Q; COSMID; CPG ISLAND; DELETION MUTANT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DROSOPHILA; FETUS; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TESTIS; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0031043863     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.3.465     Document Type: Article

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