Ataxia-telangiectasia: Founder effect among North African Jews

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2033-2037

  Quad, Shlomit ^a   Bar Shira, Anat ^a   Harnik, Reli ^a   Shkedy, Dganit ^a   Ziv, Yael ^a   Khosravi, Rami ^a   Brown, Kevin ^b   Vanagaite, Lina ^a   Xu, Gang ^c   Frydman, Moshe ^d,e   Lavin, Martin F ^f   Hill, David ^b   Tagle, Danilo A ^b   Shiloh, Yosef ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Oncogene Research Products   (United States)

^d GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^e Queensland Inst of Medical Research ^*

^f QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; JEW; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STOP CODON; TUNISIA;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; JEWS; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 10544235695     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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