Cloning, genomic organization, alternative transcripts and mutational analysis of the gene responsible for autosomal recessive universal congenital alopecia

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1671-1679

  Cichon, Sven ^a   Anker, Martina ^a   Vogt, Ina R ^a   Rohleder, Hendrik ^a   Pützstück, Markus ^a   Hillmer, Axel ^a   Farooq, Sardar A ^b   Al Dhafri, Khamis S ^b   Ahmad, Mahmud ^c   Haque, Sayedul ^c   Rietschel, Marcella ^a   Propping, Peter ^a   Kruse, Roland ^a   Nöthen, Markus M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 7344229369     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.11.1671     Document Type: Article

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