Revertant mosaicism and retrotransposons: Another explanation of "natural gene therapy" [1]

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 137 A, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 222-

  Bittar, Mario ^a   Happle, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVERTANT; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; GENE THERAPY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOSAICISM; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 24344487864     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.30707     Document Type: Letter

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