Cardiomyopathy in zebrafish due to mutation in an alternatively spliced exon of titin

Nature Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-209

  Xu, Xiaolei ^a   Meiler, Steffen E ^a   Zhong, Tao P ^a   Mohideen, Manzoor ^a   Crossley, Dane A ^b   Burggren, Warren W ^c   Fishman, Mark C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNECTIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HEART DILATATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZEBRA FISH;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FISH DISEASES; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; HEART; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SARCOMERES; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0036478894     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng816     Document Type: Article

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