Somatic chromosomal translocation between Ewsr1 and Fli1 loci leads to dilated cardiomyopathy in a mouse model

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Tanaka, Miwa ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuichi ^a   Yamazaki, Yukari ^a   Kinoshita, Hideyuki ^b   Kuwahara, Koichiro ^b   Nakao, Kazuwa ^b   Jay, Patrick Y ^c   Noda, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamura, Takuro ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EWS-FLI FUSION PROTEIN; FLI1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ONCOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EWS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; LIVER; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC LOCI; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN EWS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84954288461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07826     Document Type: Article

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