Identification and Analysis of a Novel Mutation in the FOXC1 Forkhead Domain

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 4608-4612

  Saleem, Ramsey A ^a   Murphy, Tara C ^a   Liebmann, Jeffery M ^b   Walter, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FORKHEAD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXENFELD RIEGER MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DNA BINDING; EYE MALFORMATION; FOXC1 GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0142169915     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0090     Document Type: Article

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