Novel keratin 5 and 14 gene mutations in patients with epidermolysis bullosa simplex from Poland

Archives of Dermatological Research

Volumn 296, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 577-579

  Hamada, Takahiro ^a   Kawano, Yuko ^a   Szczecinska, Weronika ^b   Wozniak, Katarzyna ^b   Yasumoto, Shinichiro ^a   Kowalewski, Cezary ^b   Hashimoto, Takashi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Autosomal dominant; Blistering; Cytoskeletal protein

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 14; DNA; KERATIN;

ARTICLE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATIN-5; KERATINS; MALE; MUTATION;

EID: 20944442465     PISSN: 03403696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00403-005-0560-1     Document Type: Article

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