Grainyhead genes and mammalian neural tube closure

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 728-735

  Gustavsson, Peter ^a   Copp, Andrew J ^b   Greene, Nicholas D E ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curly tail; Grainyhead; Grhl; Neural tube defects; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

DNA; MUTANT PROTEIN;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; ENDODERM; EPIDERMIS; EXENCEPHALY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRHL1 GENE; GRHL3 GENE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPINA BIFIDA; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; NEURAL TUBE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 55449095920     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20494     Document Type: Review

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