Mutation analysis provides additional proof that mottled is the mouse homologue of Menkes' disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 417-423

  Reed, Vivienne ^a   Boyd, Yvonne ^a  

^a MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; COPPER ION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; MENKES SYNDROME; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPPER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; MALE; MENKES KINKY HAIR SYNDROME; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031048445     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.3.417     Document Type: Article

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