Subunits of the translation initiation factor elF2B are mutant in leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter

Nature Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 383-388

  Leegwater, Peter A J ^a   Vermeulen, Gerre ^a,d   Könst, Andrea A M ^a   Naidu, Sakkubai ^b   Mulders, Joyce ^a,d   Visser, Allerdien ^a   Kersbergen, Paula ^a   Mobach, Dragosh ^d   Fonds, Dafna ^d   Van Berkel, Carola G M ^d   Lemmers, Richard J L F ^d   Frants, Rune R ^d   Oudejans, Cees B M ^a   Schutgens, Ruud B H ^a   Pronk, Jan C ^d   Van der Knaap, Marjo S ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN DISEASES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2B; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 18344386777     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng764     Document Type: Article

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