Getting to the heart of DiGeorge syndrome

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1120-1121

  Schinke, Martina ^a   Izumo, Seigo ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHICK EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; NEURAL CREST; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0032829499     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13438     Document Type: Short Survey

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