The mouse frizzy (fr) and rat 'hairless' (frCR) mutations are natural variants of protease serine S1 family member 8 (Prss8)

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 527-532

  Spacek, Damek V ^a   Perez, Amarilis F ^a   Ferranti, Katelynn M ^a   Wu, Lillya K L ^a   Moy, Daniel M ^a   Magnan, David R ^a   King, Thomas R ^a  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alopecia; CAP1; Epidermal barrier; Positional candidate approach

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROSTASIN; VALINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIRLESS RAT; HYBRID; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HAIR DISEASES; HAIR FOLLICLE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; RATS, HAIRLESS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SKIN; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77954080556     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.01054.x     Document Type: Article

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