Desmosomal gene evaluation in boxers with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1338-1341

  Meurs, Kathryn M ^a   Ederer, Martina M ^a   Stern, Joshua A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DESMOGLEIN 2; DESMOPLAKIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PLAKOGLOBIN; PLAKOPHILIN; PLAKOPHILIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG DISEASE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DESMOGLEIN 2; DESMOPLAKINS; DESMOSOMES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EXONS; FEMALE; GAMMA CATENIN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLAKOPHILINS; RNA SPLICE SITES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 37249063683     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.68.12.1338     Document Type: Article

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