How to Assess Causality of TMPRSS6 Mutations?

Human Mutation

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1043-1045

  Silvestri, Laura ^a   Rausa, Marco ^a   Pagani, Alessia ^a   Nai, Antonella ^a   Camaschella, Clara ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON REFRACTORY IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LETTER; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TMPRSS6 GENE; WILD TYPE;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEASES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84879413835     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.22321     Document Type: Letter

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