New genetic principles

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 593-604

  Yaron, Yuval ^a,b,c,d   Orr Urtreger, Avi ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CPG ISLAND; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE DEFICIENCY; DNA METHYLATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

BECKWITH-WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

EID: 0036403751     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-200209000-00004     Document Type: Review

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