Genomic organization and mutational analysis of HERG, a gene responsible for familial long QT syndrome

Human Genetics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 435-439

  Itoh, Toshio ^a,b   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^b   Kamiya, Tetsuro ^c   Sawayama, Toshitami ^d   Nakayama, Toshio ^e   Tomoike, Hitonobu ^f   Sakurada, Harumizu ^g   Yazaki, Yoshio ^h   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO METROPOLITAN HIROO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0031948260     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050717     Document Type: Article

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