Mutations in the human TWIST gene

Human Mutation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 150-155

  Gripp, Karen W ^a,b   Zackai, Elaine H ^a,b   Stolle, Catherine A ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrocephaly; ACS III; Craniosynostosis; Saethre Chotzen syndrome; SCS; Syndactyly III; TWIST

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DNA BINDING; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 0033950556     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(200002)15:2<150::AID-HUMU3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Review

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