BBS8 is rarely mutated in a cohort of 128 Bardet-Biedl syndrome families

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-84

  Stoetzel, Corinne ^a   Laurier, Virginie ^a   Faivre, Laurence ^b   Mégarbané, André ^c   Perrin Schmitt, Fabienne ^a   Verloes, Alain ^d   Bonneau, Dominique ^e   Mandel, Jean Louis ^f   Cossee, Mireille ^g   Dollfus, Hélène ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^e ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME 8 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS;

EID: 31544440751     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-005-0320-2     Document Type: Article

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