Functional Assessment of Human Coding Mutations Affecting Skin Pigmentation Using Zebrafish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Tsetskhladze, Zurab R ^a,b   Canfield, Victor A ^b   Ang, Khai C ^a,b   Wentzel, Steven M ^a,b   Reid, Katherine P ^a,b   Berg, Arthur S ^b   Johnson, Stephen L ^c   Kawakami, Koichi ^d   Cheng, Keith C ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEUCINE; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAST ASIAN; EMBRYO; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SLC45A2 GENE; SLC45A5 GENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIPORTERS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84867370353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047398     Document Type: Article

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