Molecular genetics of the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and postsqualene sterol metabolism

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-131

  Fitzky, Barbara U ^a   Glossmann, Hartmut ^a   Utermann, Gerd ^a   Moebius, Fabian F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; ENZYME DEFECT; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME;

CATALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME; SQUALENE; STEROLS;

EID: 0032892291     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041433-199904000-00006     Document Type: Review

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