A 3-base pair insertional mutation in the choroideremia gene

Human Mutation

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL 1, 1998, Pages

  Nesslinger, Nancy ^a   Horrocks, Suzanne ^b   Ray, Peter N ^b   Strasberg, Paula ^b   MacDonald, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CASE REPORT; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CHOROIDEREMIA; FAMILY HEALTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHOROIDEREMIA; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0031985856     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.1380110113     Document Type: Article

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