Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis-genetics and syndromes

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 646-660

  Peeters, Babette ^a   Benninga, Marc A ^a   Hennekam, Raoul C M ^a  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MOTILIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN RET;

CCBE1 GENE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRONUCLEAR MYOPATHY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COSTELLO SYNDROME; DE LANGE SYNDROME; DNA REPAIR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY HISTORY; FLNA GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GJA1 GENE; HNF1BETA GENE; HRAS GENE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANTILE HYPERTROPHIC PYLORIC STENOSIS; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; KAL1 GENE; KALLMANN SYNDROME; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHEDEMA LYMPHANGIECTASIA INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SYNDROME; MLN GENE; MTM1 GENE; NCAM GENE; NIBPL GENE; NONHUMAN; NOS1 GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RET GENE; REVIEW; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; TERATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; X LINKED MYOTUBULAR MYOPATHY 1;

ANIMALS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; PYLORIC STENOSIS, HYPERTROPHIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNDROME;

EID: 84868518218     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.133     Document Type: Review

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