Altered functional balance of Gfi-1 and Gfi-1b as an alternative cause of reticular dysgenesis?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 445-448

  Barjaktarevic, Igor ^a   Maletkovic Barjaktarevic, Jelena ^b   Kamani, Naynesh R ^c   Vukmanovic, Stanislav ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INTERFAITH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR INDEPENDENCE 1; GROWTH FACTOR INDEPENDENCE 1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HEARING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETICULAR DYSGENESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 77649274477     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.09.053     Document Type: Article

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