R-spondin1 is essential in sex determination, skin differentiation and malignancy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1304-1309

  Parma, Pietro ^a   Radi, Orietta ^a   Vidal, Valerie ^b   Chaboissier, Marie Christine ^b   Dellambra, Elena ^c   Valentini, Stella ^a   Guerra, Liliana ^c   Schedl, Andreas ^b   Camerino, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE   (France)

^c LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATOSIS PALMOPLANTARIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R SPONDIN1 GENE; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SRY GENE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; KERATODERMA, PALMOPLANTAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THROMBOSPONDINS;

EID: 33750489078     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1907     Document Type: Article

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