Hamartoma syndromes, exome sequencing, and a protean puzzle

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 661-663

  Opitz, John M ^a   Jorde, Lynn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE B;

AKT1 GENE; CONGENITAL TUMOR; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; EXOME; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMIHYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; LUNG CYST; MULTIPLE CANCER; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TISSUE GROWTH;

EID: 84860399425     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1107384     Document Type: Editorial

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