MECP2 mutations in sporadic cases of Rett syndrome are almost exclusively of paternal origin

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1093-1101

  Trappe, R ^a   Laccone, F ^a   Cobilanschi, J ^a   Meins, M ^a   Huppke, P ^b   Hanefeld, F ^b   Engel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Specialty Neuropaediatrics   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0035013739     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320109     Document Type: Article

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