A human homologue of Drosophila minibrain (MNB) is expressed in the neuronal regions affected in Down syndrome and maps to the critical region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1305-1310

  Guimerá, Jordi ^a   Casas, Caty ^a   Pucharcòs, Carles ^a   Solans, Asun ^a   Domènech, Anna ^a   Planas, Anna M ^b   Ashley, Jennifer ^c   Lovett, Michael ^c   Estivill, Xavier ^a   Pritchard, Melanie A ^a  

^a Duran i Reynals Hospital   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOME 21; DOWN SYNDROME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TRISOMY 21;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; DNA PRIMERS; DOWN SYNDROME; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 10144260033     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.9.1305     Document Type: Article

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