The anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia gene (EDA) undergoes alternative splicing and encodes ectodysplasin-A with deletion mutations in collagenous repeats

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1661-1669

  Bayés, Mònica ^a   Hartung, Andrew J ^b   Ezer, Sini ^a   Pispa, Johanna ^c   Thesleff, Irma ^c   Srivastava, Anand K ^b   Kere, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECTODYSPLASIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANHIDROTIC ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; EXON; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; ECTODYSPLASINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031716740     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.11.1661     Document Type: Article

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