Spinal muscular atrophy: Untangling the knot?

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Biros, Ivan ^a   Forrest, Susan ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

NAIP; SMA; SMN

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; REPETITIVE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA PROCESSING; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TELOMERE;

AUTOANTIGENS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS-INHIBITORY PROTEIN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR;

EID: 0032933619     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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