Achalasia: Will genetic studies provide insights?

Human Genetics

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 353-364

  Gockel, Henning R ^a   Schumacher, Johannes ^b   Gockel, Ines ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a   Haaf, Thomas ^c   Nöthen, Markus M ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLGROVE SYNDROME; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; RET PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SPRY2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

EID: 77957588025     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-010-0874-8     Document Type: Review

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