Transfer RNA and human disease

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Abbott, Jamie A ^a   Francklyn, Christopher S ^a   Robey Bond, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Localized translation; Mitochondrial disease; Neurodegenerative disease; tRNA; Usher syndrome Type IIIB

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASES; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULMONARY CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMATOSIS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING;

EID: 84906242596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00158     Document Type: Review

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