Novel IRF6 mutations in Honduran Van der Woude syndrome patients

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-241

  Birkeland, Andrew C ^a   Larrabee, Yuna ^a   Kent, David T ^d   Flores, Carlos ^e   Su, Gloria H ^b   Lee, Joseph H ^b,c   Haddad Jr , Joseph ^b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e University of Honduras   (Honduras)

Author keywords

Honduras; IRF6; Novel mutations; Van der Woude syndrome

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 6;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; HONDURAS; HUMAN; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; STOP CODON; VAN DER WOUDE SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CYSTS; EXONS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HONDURAS; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; LIP; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE;

EID: 79551697609     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2011.423     Document Type: Article

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