Therapeutic interference: A step closer for pachyonychia congenita?

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-8

  Rugg, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL PACHYONYCHIA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; KERATODERMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 37049011174     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5701065     Document Type: Note

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