Epimutations in Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes: A molecular study of 136 patients with an imprinting defect

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 571-577

  Buiting, Karin ^a   Groß, Stephanie ^a   Lich, Christina ^a   Gillessen Kaesbach, Gabriele ^a   El Maarri, Osman ^b   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0037371674     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367926     Document Type: Article

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