Mutational analysis of the cardiac actin gene in familial and sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-327

  Takai, Eiji ^a   Akita, Hozuka ^a   Shiga, Nobuyuki ^a   Kanazawa, Kenji ^a   Yamada, Shinichiro ^a   Terashima, Masahiro ^a   Matsuda, Yasuaki ^a   Iwai, Chikao ^a   Kawai, Keisuke ^a   Yokota, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yokoyama, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoskeletal protein; Genetics; Heart failure; Mutation

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0032821024     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19991008)86:4<325::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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