Organisation of the pericentromeric region of chromosome 15: At least four partial gene copies are amplified in patients with a proximal duplication of 15q

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 170-177

  Fantes, J A ^a,b   Mewborn, S K ^a   Lese, C M ^a   Hedrick, J ^a   Brown, R L ^a   Dyomin, V ^c   Chaganti, R S K ^c   Christian, S L ^a   Ledbetter, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN GABRA5; PROTEIN IGH D; PROTEIN IGH V; PROTEIN NF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

EID: 0036196707     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.39.3.170     Document Type: Article

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