Germline mutations of the RET ligand GDNF are not sufficient to cause hirschsprung disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-347

  Salomon, Rémi ^a   Attié, Tania ^a   Pelet, Anna ^a   Bidaud, Christelle ^a   Eng, Charis ^b   Amiel, Jeanne ^c   Sarnacki, Sabine ^a   Goulet, Olivier ^a   Ricour, Claude ^a   Nihoul Fékété, Claire ^a   Munnich, Arnold ^a   Lyonnet, Stanislas ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GDNF PROTEIN, HUMAN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RET ONCOGENE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 16144368214     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1196-345     Document Type: Letter

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