The molecular genetics of holoprosencephaly

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-61

  Roessler, Erich ^a   Muenke, Maximilian ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease genes; Holoprosencephaly; HPE; Multifactorial inheritance

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN NODAL; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 18; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CYCLOPIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREBRAIN; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHH GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIX3 GENE; ZIC2 GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 76149133124     PISSN: 15524868     EISSN: 15524876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.c.30236     Document Type: Review

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