Genetic mosaics and the germ line lineage

Genes

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 216-237

  Samuels, Mark E ^a,b   Friedman, Jan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

De novo mutation; Germ line; Lineage; Mosaicism

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANOPHTHALMIA SYNDROME; CELL LINEAGE; CRASH SYNDROME; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; EMBRYO CELL; ERYTHROPOIETIC PROTOPORPHYRIA; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FOUNDING GERM LINE CELL; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GERM LINE; GERM LINE MOSAICISM; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOPHILIA A; HEMOPHILIA B; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUNTER SYNDROME; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIC RICKETS; INDEL MUTATION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LESCH NYHAN SYNDROME; LOWE SYNDROME; MOSAICISM; MUTATION RATE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; RUBINSTEIN SYNDROME; SANGER SEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIANT; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC MOSAICISM; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84930948091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes6020216     Document Type: Review

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