Fras1 deficiency results in cryptophthalmos, renal agenesis and blebbed phenotype in mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-214

  Vrontou, Sophia ^a,b   Petrou, Petros ^a   Meyer, Barbara I ^c   Galanopoulos, Vassilis K ^b   Imai, Kenji ^d   Yanagi, Masayuki ^d   Chowdhury, Kamal ^c   Scambler, Peter J ^e   Chalepakis, Georges ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAS1 PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOPHTHALMOS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE DISEASE; FRASER SYNDROME; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLISTER; DENYS-DRASH SYNDROME; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; GENE TARGETING; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038617716     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1168     Document Type: Article

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