A functional role for 4qA/B in the structural rearrangement of the 4q35 region and in the regulation of FRG1 and ANT1 in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Pirozhkova, Iryna ^a   Petrov, Andrei ^a   Dmitriev, Petr ^a   Laoudj, Dalila ^b,c   Lipinski, Marc ^a   Vassetzky, Yegor ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCASE; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; PROTEIN FRG1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FRG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYOBLAST; PROMOTER REGION; TELOMERE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME 4; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCATOR 1; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 54449097230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003389     Document Type: Article

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