Telomere position effect regulates DUX4 in human facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 671-678

  Stadler, Guido ^a,b   Rahimov, Fedik ^b,c   King, Oliver D ^b,d,h   Chen, Jennifer C J ^b,d,h   Robin, Jerome D ^a,b   Wagner, Kathryn R ^b,e,f   Shay, Jerry W ^a,g   Emerson, Charles P ^b,d,h   Wright, Woodring E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b The Senator Paul D Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DUX4; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIBLING; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; UPREGULATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; MYOBLASTS; TELOMERE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84878913029     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2571     Document Type: Article

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