Werner's syndrome: From clinics to genetics

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 760-766

  Goto, M ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Ohtsuka Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosomal instability; Helicase; Progeroid syndrome; Systemic sclerosis; Werner's syndrome

Indexed keywords

HELICASE;

GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WERNER SYNDROME;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; METABOLIC DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0033652180     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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