Mutations in ELA2, encoding neutrophil elastase, define a 21-day biological clock in cyclic haematopoiesis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 433-436

  Horwitz, Marshall ^a   Benson, Kathleen F ^a   Person, Richard E ^a   Aprikyan, Andrew G ^a   Dale, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19P; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINASE INHIBITION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUTROPENIA; PEDIGREE; PERIODICITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0032757863     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70544     Document Type: Article

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