Translocation breakpoint maps 5 kb 3' from TWIST in a patient affected with Saethre-Chotzen syndrome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1079-1086

  Krebs, Inge ^a   Weis, Isabel ^a   Hudler, Melanie ^a   Rommens, Johanna M ^b   Roth, Helmut ^a   Scherer, Steven W ^b   Tsui, Lap Chee ^b   Füchtbauer, Ernst Martin ^c   Grzeschik, Karl Heinz ^a   Tsuji, Kazushiro ^d   Kunz, Jürgen ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRACHYDACTYLY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7P; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 6; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 7; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; EXON; FACE ASYMMETRY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMINENT EAR; PTOSIS; SOFT TISSUE; SYNDACTYLY;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; COSMIDS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 8544275253     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.7.1079     Document Type: Article

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