High rate of mosaicism in tuberous sclerosis complex

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1632-1637

  Verhoef, Senno ^a   Bakker, Lida ^a   Tempelaars, Anita M P ^a   Hesseling Janssen, Arjenne L W ^a   Mazurczak, Tadeusz ^e   Jozwiak, Sergiusz ^e   Fois, Alberto ^d   Bartalini, Gabriella ^d   Zonnenberg, Bernard A ^b   Van Essen, Anthonie J ^c   Lindhout, Dick ^a   Halley, Dicky J J ^a   Van Den Ouweland, Ans M W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e Erasmus Univ/Acad Hosp Rotterdam ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC RISK; GONAD; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSAICISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0033361939     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302412     Document Type: Article

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