Mouse models of genomic syndromes as tools for understanding the basis of complex traits: An example with the Smith-Magenis and the Potocki-Lupski syndromes

Current Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 259-268

  Carmona Mora, P ^a   Molina, J ^a   Encina, C A ^a,b   Walz, K ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Complex traits; Gene copy number variation; Mouse models; Phenotypic consequences

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID INDUCED 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; EEG ABNORMALITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; POTOCKI LUPSKI SYNDROME; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SMITH MAGENIS SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 68749119659     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920209788488508     Document Type: Review

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