Immunological diagnosis of Werner syndrome by down-regulated and truncated gene products

Human Genetics

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 301-307

  Goto, Makoto ^a   Yamabe, Yukako ^b   Shiratori, Miwa ^b   Okada, Masako ^b   Kawabe, Tamae ^b   Matsumoto, Takehisa ^b   Sugimoto, Masanobu ^b   Furuichi, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Ohtsuka Hospital   (Japan)

^b AGENE Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CANCER RISK; CELL LINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0032848570     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004399900151     Document Type: Article

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