Human KVLQT1 gene shows tissue-specific imprinting and encompasses Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome chromosomal rearrangements

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-185

  Lee, Maxwell P ^a   Hu, Ren Ju ^a   Johnson, Laura A ^a   Feinberg, Andrew P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ARTICLE; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; FETUS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG QT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BECKWITH-WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; KCNQ POTASSIUM CHANNELS; KCNQ1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES, HEREDITARY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0031046285     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-181     Document Type: Article

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