Rapid direct sequence analysis of the dystrophin gene

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 931-939

  Flanigan, Kevin M ^a   Von Niederhausern, Andrew ^a   Dunn, Diane M ^a   Alder, Jonathan ^a   Mendell, Jerry R ^b   Weiss, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037384644     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374176     Document Type: Article

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