Mutations in HFM1 in recessive primary ovarian insufficiency

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 972-974

  Wang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Wenxiang ^b   Jiang, Hong ^b   Wu, Bai Lin ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b The 105th Hospital of PLA   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MIGRATION; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HFM1 GENE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEIOSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PRIMARY OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84895450214     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1310150     Document Type: Letter

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