Genetic diagnosis of PLP gene duplications/deletions in patients with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 466-467

  Gao, Qing ^a,b   Thurston, V C ^a   Vance, G H ^a   Dlouhy, S R ^a   Hodes, Marion E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene duplication; PCR; PMD; Real time

Indexed keywords

PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE DISORDER;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PELIZAEUS-MERZBACHER DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 27544432163     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2005.00522.x     Document Type: Article

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