Holoprosencephaly due to mutations in ZIC2, a homologue of Drosophila odd-paired

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 180-183

  Brown, Stephen A ^a   Warburton, Dorothy ^a   Brown, Lucia Y ^a   Yu, Chih Yu ^b   Roeder, Elizabeth R ^c   Stengel Rutkowski, Sabine ^d   Hennekam, Raoul C M ^e   Muenke, Maximilian ^f,g  

^a Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Valley Children's Hospital Fresno County   (United States)

^d Valley Children's Hospital ^*  (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE LIBRARY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

INSECTA;

EID: 0031694448     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2484     Document Type: Article

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