The envelope, please: Nuclear lamins and disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 136-137

  Hegele, Robert A ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LAMININ;

CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE MUTATION; HEART CONDUCTION; LIPODYSTROPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN FAMILY; SHORT SURVEY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; HUMANS; LAMINS; LIPODYSTROPHY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 0033973777     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72221     Document Type: Short Survey

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