Mutations in the integrin α7 gene cause congenital myopathy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 94-97

  Hayashi, Yukiko K ^a   Chou, Fan Li ^b   Engvall, Eva ^c   Ogawa, Megumu ^a   Matsuda, Chie ^a,d   Hirabayashi, Shinichi ^e   Yokochi, Kenji ^f   Ziober, Barry L ^g   Kramer, Randall H ^g   Kaufman, Stephen J ^h   Ozawa, Eijiro ^a   Goto, Yu Ichi ^a   Nonaka, Ikuya ^a   Tsukahara, Toshifumi ^a   Wang, Jian Zhou ^b   Hoffman, Eric P ^b   Arahata, Kiichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e NAGANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Seirei Mikatabara Hospital   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CREATINE KINASE; CYSTEINE; DYSTROGLYCAN; INTEGRIN; LAMININ; LAMININ RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SARCOGLYCAN; ALPHA INTEGRIN; ALPHA7 INTEGRIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; GENETICS; INFANT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANTIGENS, CD; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTEGRIN ALPHA CHAINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 17344372250     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0598-94     Document Type: Article

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