Human transcription factor SLUG: Mutation analysis in patients with neural tube defects and identification of a missense mutation (D119E) in the Slug subfamily-defining region

Mutation Research - Mutation Research Genomics

Volumn 406, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 63-69

  Stegmann, Karolin ^a   Boecker, Julia ^a   Kosan, Christian ^a   Ermert, August ^b   Kunz, Jürgen ^a   Koch, Manuela C ^a  

^a Medizinisches Zentrum H   (Germany)

^b Kinderneurologisches Zentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mutation analysis; Neural tube defects (NTD); Slug; Transcription factor; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

TAQ POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

GALLUS GALLUS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0032842828     PISSN: 13835726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5726(99)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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