Complete physical map of the common deletion region in Williams syndrome and identification and characterization of three novel genes

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 590-599

  Meng, Xun ^a   Lu, Xiaojun ^b   Li, Zhizhong ^b   Green, Eric D ^d   Massa, Hillary ^e   Trask, Barbara J ^e   Morris, Colleen A ^f   Keating, Mark T ^a,b,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ARTICLE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMIZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PROBES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELASTIN; GENE DELETION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSDUCIN; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0031794713     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050874     Document Type: Article

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