Limb and kidney defects in Lmx1b mutant mice suggest an involvement of LMX1B in human nail patella syndrome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-55

  Chen, Haixu ^a   Lun, Yi ^a   Ovchinnikov, Dmitry ^a   Kokubo, Hiroki ^a   Oberg, Kerby C ^b   Pepicelli, Carmen V ^c   Gan, Lin ^a   Lee, Brendan ^b   Johnson, Randy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; KIDNEY ANOMALY; LIMB DEFECT; MOUSE; NAIL PATELLA SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NAIL-PATELLA SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031747153     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0598-51     Document Type: Article

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