The spectrum of WRN mutations in Werner syndrome patients

Human Mutation

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 558-567

  Huang, Shurong ^a   Lee, Lin ^a   Hanson, Nancy B ^a   Lenaerts, Catherine ^b   Hoehn, Holger ^c   Poot, Martin ^d   Rubin, Craig D ^e   Chen, Da Fu ^f   Yang, Chih Chao ^f   Juch, Heike ^g   Dorn, Thomas ^g   Spiegel, Roland ^h   Oral, Elif Arioglu ⁱ   Abid, Mohammed ^j   Battisti, Carla ^k   Lucci Cordisco, Emanuela ^l   Neri, Giovanni ^l   Steed, Erin H ^m   Kidd, Alexa ⁿ   Isley, William ^o   Showalter, David ^o   Vittone, Janet L ^o   Konstantinow, Alexander ^p   Ring, Johannes ^p   Meyer, Peter ^q   Wenger, Sharon L ^r,w   Von Herbay, Axel ^s,x   Wollina, Uwe ^t   Schuelke, Markus ^u   Huizenga, Carin R ^a   Leistritz, Dru F ^a   Martin, George M ^a   Mian, I Saira ^v   Oshima, Junko ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g SWISS EPILEPSY CENTER   (Switzerland)

^h Human Genetics Laboratory   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^l CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^m NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

ⁿ WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^o MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^p TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^q Genefinder Technologies Beteiligungs GmbH   (Germany)

^r CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^t ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

^u CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^v LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^w WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Aging; International registries; Penetrance; Progeroid syndromes; RecQ helicases; RECQ3; RECQL2; Werner helicase; Werner syndrome; WRN

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; SKIN FIBROBLAST; WERNER SYNDROME; WRN GENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; RECQ HELICASES; REGISTRIES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 33744990645     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.20337     Document Type: Article

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