How do mutations in lamins A and C cause disease?

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-351

  Worman, Howard J ^a   Courvalin, Jean Claude ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LAMIN A; LAMIN C; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ADIPOCYTE; CHROMATIN; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; LIPODYSTROPHY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUSE; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WERNER SYNDROME; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; MUSCLE CELLS;

EID: 85047692354     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI20832     Document Type: Review

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