Frasier syndrome comes full circle: Genetic studies performed in an original patient

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 843-844

  Wang, Nicholas J ^b   Song, Hae Ri ^b   Schanen, N Carolyn ^b   Litman, Neil L ^b   Frasier, S Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; EXON; FEMALE; FRASIER SYNDROME; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADOBLASTOMA; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENINE; DENYS-DRASH SYNDROME; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; GONADAL DYSGENESIS, 46,XY; GUANINE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 20544462369     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.02.029     Document Type: Article

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