Determination of exon 7 SMN1 deletion in Iranian patients and heterozygous carriers by quantitative real-time PCR

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-136

  Akbari, Mohammad Taghi ^a,b   Noruzinia, Mehrdad ^a   Mozdarani, Hossein ^a   Hamid, Mohammad ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Tehran Medical Genetics Laboratory   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

exon 7 deletion; real time PCR; SMN1 gene; spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

SMN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

EXONS; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN;

EID: 79960085268     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-011-0038-1     Document Type: Article

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