A gene encoding a transmembrane protein is mutated in patients with diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy (Wolfram syndrome)

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-148

  Inoue, Hiroshi ^a   Tanizawa, Yukio ^a   Wasson, Jon ^b   Behn, Philip ^b   Kalidas, Kamini ^b   Bernal Mizrachi, Ernesto ^b   Mueckler, Mike ^b   Marshall, Helen ^c   Donis Keller, Helen ^c   Crock, Patricia ^d   Rogers, Douglas ^e   Mikuni, Masahiko ^f   Kumashiro, Hisashi ^g   Higashi, Koichiro ^h   Sobue, Gen ⁱ   Oka, Yoshitomo ^a   Alan Permutt, M ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHN HUNTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Fujiwara Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

ⁱ NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 4; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MARKER GENE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; TELOMERE; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

EID: 17344362695     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/2441     Document Type: Article

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