Deletion of a conserved regulatory element required for Hmx1 expression in craniofacial mesenchyme in the dumbo rat: A newly identified cause of congenital ear malformation

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 812-822

  Quina, Lely A ^a   Kuramoto, Takashi ^b   Luquetti, Daniela V ^c   Cox, Timothy C ^c,d   Serikawa, Tadao ^b   Turner, Eric E ^a,c,e  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HMX1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 14; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EAR MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EXTERNAL EAR MALFORMATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MESENCHYME; MESODERM; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA CELL; SENSORY GANGLION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EAR; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL CREST; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SKULL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870016764     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.009910     Document Type: Article

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