Defining Wilson disease phenotypes: From the patient to the bench and back again

Gastroenterology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 692-696

  Ferenci, Peter ^a   Roberts, Eve A ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

WILSON DISEASE PROTEIN;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIBLING; WILSON DISEASE;

EID: 84859417565     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.02.035     Document Type: Editorial

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