Hypomutability at the polyadenine tract in SMN intron 3 shows the invariability of the a-SMN protein structure

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-291

  Gunadi, ^a   Sasongko, T H ^a   Yusoff, S ^a   Lee, M J ^a   Nishioka, E ^a   Matsuo, M ^a   Nishio, Hisahide ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axonal SMN; Polyadenine tract; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AXONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38949216680     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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