PRRX1 is mutated in a fetus with agnathia-otocephaly

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-295

  Sergi, C ^a   Kamnasaran, D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN NDST1; PROTEIN PGAP1; PROTEIN PRRX1; PROTEIN PRRX2; TENASCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGNATHIA OTOCEPHALY; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; KARYOTYPE; LETTER; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION;

EID: 79551635282     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01531.x     Document Type: Letter

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