RNA transcripts, miRNA-sized fragments and proteins produced from D4Z4 units: New candidates for the pathophysiology of facioscapulohumeral dystrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2414-2430

  Snider, Lauren ^a   Asawachaicharn, Amy ^a   Tyler, Ashlee E ^a   Geng, Linda N ^a   Petek, Lisa M ^b   Maves, Lisa ^a   Miller, Daniel G ^b   Lemmers, Richard J L F ^d   Winokur, Sara T ^e   Tawil, Rabi ^f   van der Maarel, Silvère M ^d   Filippova, Galina N ^a   Tapscott, Stephen J ^a,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MYOD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DUX4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; INTRON; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; MYOBLASTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 67249104052     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddp180     Document Type: Article

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