Identities and frequencies of BMPR2 mutations in Chinese patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-192

  Wang, H ^a   Cui, Q Q ^a   Sun, K ^a   Song, L ^a   Zou, Y B ^a   Wang, X J ^a   Jia, L ^a   Liu, X ^a   Gao, S ^a   Zhang, C N ^a   Hui, R T ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 2; GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; STOP CODON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 73949145107     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2009.01335.x     Document Type: Letter

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