Differential effects of a polyalanine tract expansion in Arx on neural development and gene expression

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1090-1098

  Nasrallah, MacLean Pancoast ^a   Cho, Ginam ^b   Simonet, Jacqueline C ^b   Putt, Mary E ^a   Kitamura, Kunio ^c,d   Golden, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARX PROTEIN; COREPRESSOR PROTEIN; POLYALANINE TRACT EXPANSION; POLYPEPTIDE; TLE 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MUTATION; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; POLY A; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84856959290     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr538     Document Type: Article

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