Mutation of HOXA13 in hand-foot-genital syndrome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-180

  Mortlock, Douglas P ^a   Innis, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MALE; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STOP CODON;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOT DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYNDROME; URETHRA; UTERUS;

EID: 0031050961     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-179     Document Type: Article

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