Pearls in the junk: Dissecting the molecular pathogenesis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-20

  Dmitriev, Petr ^a   Lipinski, Marc ^a   Vassetzky, Yegor S ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; D4Z4; DUX4; Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME 4Q; DOUBLE HOMEOBOX 4 CENTROMERIC GENE; DOUBLE HOMEOBOX 4 GENE; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PSEUDOGENES;

EID: 58849093548     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.09.004     Document Type: Review

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