The laminopathies: The functional architecture of the nucleus and its contribution to disease

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 369-405

  Burke, Brian ^a   Stewart, Colin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Lamins; Nuclear envelope; Progeria

Indexed keywords

LAMIN A; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AGYRIA; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA REPLICATION; DYSTONIA; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LIPODYSTROPHY; LMNA GENE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROGERIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WERNER SYNDROME;

CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; MUTATION;

EID: 33750379023     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.7.080505.115732     Document Type: Review

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