Long-range conserved non-coding SHOX sequences regulate expression in developing chicken limb and are associated with short stature phenotypes in human patients

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-222

  Sabherwal, Nitin ^a   Bangs, Fiona ^b   Röth, Ralph ^a   Weiss, Birgit ^a   Jantz, Karin ^a   Tiecke, Eva ^b   Hinkel, Georg K ^c   Spaich, Christiane ^d   Hauffa, Berthold P ^e   van der Kamp, Hetty ^f   Kapeller, Johannes ^a   Tickle, Cheryll ^b   Rappold, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN SHOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSCHONDROSTEOSIS; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; LIMB BUD; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY HEIGHT; CHICK EMBRYO; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, INTERGENIC; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; GENE COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HINDLIMB; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTEOCHONDRODYSPLASIAS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SYNDROME;

MUS; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 33846617772     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl470     Document Type: Article

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