Gene encoding a new RING-B-box-Coiled-coil protein is mutated in mulibrey nanism

Nature Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 298-301

  Avela, Kristiina ^a   Lipsanen Nyman, Marita ^e   Idänheimo, Niina ^a   Seemanová, Eva ^b   Rosengren, Sally ^c   Mäkelä, Tomi P ^e   Perheentupa, Jaakko ^e   De La Chapelle, Albert ^a,d   Lehesjoki, Anna Elina ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Finland)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DWARFISM; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER; MUSCLE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DWARFISM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; ZINC FINGERS;

TURCICA;

EID: 0033918327     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/77053     Document Type: Article

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