Congenital atrichia in five Arab Palestinian families resulting from a deletion mutation in the human hairless gene

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 400-404

  Zlotogorski, Abraham ^a   Ahmad, Wasim ^b   Christiano, Angela M ^b,c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 8P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PALESTINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALOPECIA; ANIMALS; ARABS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031723522     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050840     Document Type: Article

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