Human Vitamin K-Dependent GAS6: Gene Structure, Allelic Variation, and Association with Stroke

Human Mutation

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 506-512

  Muñoz, Xavier ^a   Sumoy, Lauro ^b   Ramírez Lorca, Reposo ^c   Villar, José ^c   De Frutos, Pablo García ^d   Sala, Núria ^a,e  

^a Institut de Recerca Oncologica   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atherothrombotic disease; GAS6; Gene structure; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; SNP; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTICOAGULANT PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE; LIGAND; PROTEIN KINASE AXL; PROTEIN KINASE MER; PROTEIN KINASE SKY; PROTEIN S; THYMINE; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHROMOSOME 13; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC GENE 6; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE STRAIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STROKE; THROMBOSIS;

ALLELES; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; RNA SPLICE SITES; VARIATION (GENETICS); VITAMIN K;

EID: 2342628680     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.20025     Document Type: Article

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