The forkhead transcription factor gene FKHL7 is responsible for glaucoma phenotypes which map to 6p25

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 140-147

  Nishimura, Darryl Y ^a   Swiderski, Ruth E ^a   Alward, Wallace L M ^b   Searby, Charles C ^a   Patil, Shivanand R ^a   Bennet, Steven R ^c   Kanis, Adam B ^a   Gastier, Julie M ^d   Stone, Edwin M ^b   Sheffield, Val C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VitreoRetinal Surgery   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 13; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 6; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; MONOSOMY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIEGER SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 17344368672     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/493     Document Type: Article

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