Craniofacial shape variation in Twist1+/- mutant mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 297, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 826-833

  Parsons, Trish E ^a   Weinberg, Seth M ^a   Khaksarfard, Kameron ^b   Howie, R Nicole ^c   Elsalanty, Mohammed ^b,c   Yu, Jack C ^b,c   Cray, James J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniosynostosis; Geometric morphometrics; Mouse; Saethre Chotzen; Twist1

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TWIST1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRACHYCEPHALY; CALVARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; GEOMETRY; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PALATE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID; TERATOLOGY; ANIMAL; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84899489358     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22899     Document Type: Article

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