Novel missense mutation in the early growth response 2 gene associated with Dejerine-Sottas syndrome phenotype

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1827-1832

  Timmerman, V ^a,c   De Jonghe, P ^a   Ceuterick, C ^b   De Vriendt, E ^c   Lofgren, A ^d   Nelis, E ^a   Warner, L E ^b   Lupski, J R ^c   Martin, J J ^d   Van Broeckhoven, C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 0033015744     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.9.1827     Document Type: Article

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