A homeobox gene, HLXB9, is the major locus for dominantly inherited sacral agenesis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 358-361

  Ross, Alison J ^a   Ruiz Perez, Victor ^a   Wang, Yiming ^a   Hagan, Donna Marie ^a   Scherer, Steve ^b   Lynch, Sally A ^a   Lindsay, Susan ^a   Custard, Emily ^c   Belloni, Elena ^b   Wilson, David I ^a   Wadey, Roy ^c   Goodman, Frances ^c   Orstavik, Karen Helene ^d   Monclair, Tom ^e   Robson, Steve ^a   Reardon, William ^c   Burn, John ^a   Scambler, Pete ^c   Strachan, Tom ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMEOBOX; MENINGOCELE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM AGENESIS; STOP CODON; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BONE DISEASES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SACRUM;

EID: 17344363829     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3828     Document Type: Article

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