Molecular analysis of the human laminin α3a chain gene (LAMA3a): A strategy for mutation identification and DNA-based prenatal diagnosis in Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1067-1076

  Pulkkinen, Leena ^a,e   Cserhalmi Friedman, Peter B ^b   Tang, Mary ^c   Ryan, Maureen C ^d   Uitto, Jouni ^a   Christiano, Angela M ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c TSAN YUK HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; LAMININ;

ARTICLE; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CRICETINAE; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA, JUNCTIONAL; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRONS; LAMININ; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0031657973     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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