Mutations in ATRX, encoding a SWI/SNF-like protein, cause diverse changes in the pattern of DNA methylation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 368-371

  Gibbons, Richard J ^b   McDowell, Tarra L ^a   Raman, Sundhya ^b   O'Rourke, Delia M ^a   Garrick, David ^a   Ayyub, Helena ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; FACE DYSMORPHIA; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA HELICASES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, SATELLITE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNDROME; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034069652     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74191     Document Type: Article

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