A gene related to caenorhabditis elegans spermatogenesis factor fer-1 is mutated in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-42

  Bashir, Rumaisa ^a   Britton, Stephen ^a   Strachan, Tom ^a   Keers, Sharon ^a   Vafiadaki, Elizabeth ^a   Lako, Majlinda ^a   Richard, Isabelle ^b   Marchand, Sylvie ^b   Bourg, Nathalie ^b   Argov, Zohar ^c   Sadeh, Menachem ^d   Mahjneh, Ibrahim ^e   Marconi, Giampiero ^e   Passos Bueno, Maria Rita ^f   Moreira, Eloisa De S ^f   Zatz, Mayana ^f   Beckmann, Jacques S ^b   Bushby, Kate ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GÉNÉTHON   (France)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN 3; DYSFERLIN; DYSTROPHIN; SPERMATOGENESIS FACTOR FER 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17344363640     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1689     Document Type: Article

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