The battlefield of rare diseases: Where uncommon insights are common

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 154, 2012, Pages

  Gahl, William A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MERCAPTAMINE;

ALKAPTONURIA; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CLAUDICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FANCONI RENOTUBULAR SYNDROME; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OCULAR ALBINISM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALKAPTONURIA; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 84867199829     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004980     Document Type: Editorial

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