Analysis of aniridia patients for mutations in the PAX6 gene;Molekulargenetische untersuchung des PAX6-gens bei aniridie-patienten

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 828-830

  Wolf, M ^a   Zabel, B ^a   Lorenz, B ^c   Blankenagel, A ^d   Ghorbani, M B ^a   Schwenn, O ^a   Wildhardt, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Krasemann   (Germany)

^c Abteilung für Kinderophthalmologie Strabismologie Ophthalmogenetik   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aniridia; Mutations; PAX6; WAGR syndrome; Wilms' tumor risk

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIRIDIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 11P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EYE MALFORMATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NEPHROBLASTOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; WAGR SYNDROME;

ANIRIDIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SYNDROME; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0032408024     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003470050361     Document Type: Article

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