Novel nonsense mutation causes analbuminemia in a Moroccan family

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 227-229

  Campagnoli, Monica ^a   Sala, Alberto ^a   Romano, Assunta ^a   Rossi, Antonio ^a   Nauta, Jeroen ^b   Koot, Bart G P ^b   Minchiotti, Lorenzo ^a   Galliano, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PLASMA PROTEIN;

AMPLICON; ANALBUMINEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXON; FEMALE; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOROCCO; NONSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ALBUMINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CODON, NONSENSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOROCCO;

EID: 11144291394     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.040873     Document Type: Article

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