Positional cloning of the gene for Nijmegen breakage syndrome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-181

  Matsuura, Shinya ^a   Tauchi, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Asako ^a   Kondo, Noriko ^a   Sakamoto, Shuichi ^a   Endo, Satoru ^a   Smeets, Dominique ^b   Solder, Brigitte ^c   Belohradsky, Bernd H ^c   Der Kaloustian, Vazken M ^d   Oshimura, Mitsuo ^e   Isomura, Minoru ^f   Nakamura, Yusuke ^f   Komatsu, Kenshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 8P; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; MEIOSIS; MICROCEPHALY; NIJMEGEN BREAKAGE SYNDROME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; MICROCEPHALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SYNDROME;

ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 17344372572     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/549     Document Type: Article

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