An ancient retrotransposal insertion causes Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6691, 1998, Pages 388-392

  Kobayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Nakahori, Yutaka ^c   Miyake, Masashi ^a   Matsumura, Kiichiro ^d   Kondo Iida, Eri ^a,e   Nomura, Yoshiko ^f   Segawa, Masaya ^f   Yoshioka, Mieko ^g   Saito, Kayoko ^e   Osawa, Makiko ^e   Hamano, Kenzo ^h   Sakakihara, Youichi ^a   Nonaka, Ikuya ⁱ   Nakagome, Yasuo ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^a   Toda, Tatsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Segawa Neurological Clinic for Children   (Japan)

^g KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 9P; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; COSMIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032560851     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28653     Document Type: Article

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