Exempting homologous pseudogene sequences from polymerase chain reaction amplification allows genomic keratin 14 hotspot mutation analysis

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 616-619

  Hut, Petra H L ^a   Vlies, Pieter V D ^a   Jonkman, Marcel F ^b   Verlind, Edwin ^a   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^c   Buys, Charles H C M ^a   Scheffer, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidermolysis bullosa simplex; KRT14

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 0034003401     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2000.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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