Mechanisms and pathways of growth failure in primordial dwarfism

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 2011-2024

  Klingseisen, Anna ^a   Jackson, Andrew P ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Centro some; DNA damage response; DNA replication; Organism growth; Primordial dwarfism

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 6; CHECKPOINT KINASE RAD3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MORPHOGEN; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX 1; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX 4; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX 6; REPLICATION LICENSING FACTOR CDT1; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTROSOME; DNA DAMAGE; DROSOPHILA; DWARFISM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEIER GORLIN SYNDROME; MICROCEPHALIC PRIMORDIAL DWARFISM; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SECKEL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DWARFISM; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MUTATION;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 80053642194     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.169037     Document Type: Review

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