Familial Skewed X Chromosome Inactivation in Adrenoleukodystrophy Manifesting Heterozygotes from a Chinese Pedigree

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Zhihong ^a   Yan, Aizhen ^a   Lin, Yuxiang ^a   Xie, Haihua ^a   Zhou, Chunyan ^a   Lan, Fenghua ^a  

^a FUZHOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCD1 GENE; ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE; PROMOTER REGION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XIST GENE;

ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY; ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84874566216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057977     Document Type: Article

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