Mutations in PROP1 cause familial combined pituitary hormone deficiency

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-149

  Wu Wei, ^a   Cogan, Joy D ^b   Pfäffle, Roland W ^c   Dasen, Jeremy S ^a   Frisch, Herwig ^d   O'Connell, Shawn M ^a   Flynn, Sarah E ^a   Brown, Milton R ^e   Mullis, Primus E ^f   Parks, John S ^e   Phillips III, John A ^b   Rosenfeld, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; GENE MUTATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 17344371881     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0298-147     Document Type: Article

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