DLL3 as a candidate gene for vertebral malformations

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 140, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 2447-2453

  Giampietro, Philip F ^a   Raggio, Cathleen L ^b   Reynolds, Cory ^a   Ghebranious, Nader ^a   Burmester, James K ^a   Glurich, Ingrid ^a   Rasmussen, Kristen ^a   McPherson, Elizabeth ^a   Pauli, Richard M ^c   Shukla, Sanjay K ^a   Merchant, Sajid ^a   Jacobsen, F Stig ^a   Faciszewski, Thomas ^a   Blank, Robert D ^d,e  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital scoliosis; Genetics; Mutation; Signaling pathway

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ARGININE; GLYCINE; GUANINE; NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CANDIDATE GENE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLL3 GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION; VERTEBRAL CARDIAC RENAL LIMB ANOMALY ANAL ATRESIA TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SCOLIOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33750590091     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.31509     Document Type: Article

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