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DMWD (gene)
Introduction
Dystrophia myotonica WD repeat-containing protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DMWD gene.[1][2]
References
References
- β Jansen G, Mahadevan M, Amemiya C, Wormskamp N, Segers B, Hendriks W, O’Hoy K, Baird S, Sabourin L, Lennon G, et al. (Jun 1993). “Characterization of the myotonic dystrophy region predicts multiple protein isoform-encoding mRNAs”. Nat Genet. 1 (4): 261β6. doi:10.1038/ng0792-261. PMIDΒ 1302022.
- β “Entrez Gene: DMWD dystrophia myotonica, WD repeat containing”.
Further reading
Further reading
- Groenen P, Wieringa B (1999). “Expanding complexity in myotonic dystrophy”. BioEssays. 20 (11): 901β12. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199811)20:11<901::AID-BIES5>3.0.CO;2-0. PMIDΒ 9872056.
- Wansink DG, Wieringa B (2004). “Transgenic mouse models for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1)”. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 100 (1β4): 230β42. doi:10.1159/000072859. PMIDΒ 14526185.
- Jansen G, BΓ€chner D, Coerwinkel M, et al. (1995). “Structural organization and developmental expression pattern of the mouse WD-repeat gene DMR-N9 immediately upstream of the myotonic dystrophy locus”. Hum. Mol. Genet. 4 (5): 843β52. doi:10.1093/hmg/4.5.843. PMIDΒ 7633444.
- Shaw DJ, McCurrach M, Rundle SA, et al. (1994). “Genomic organization and transcriptional units at the myotonic dystrophy locus”. Genomics. 18 (3): 673β9. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80372-6. PMIDΒ 7905855.
- Mahadevan MS, Amemiya C, Jansen G, et al. (1993). “Structure and genomic sequence of the myotonic dystrophy (DM kinase) gene”. Hum. Mol. Genet. 2 (3): 299β304. doi:10.1093/hmg/2.3.299. PMIDΒ 8499920.
- Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). “Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery”. Genome Res. 6 (9): 791β806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMIDΒ 8889548.
- Alwazzan M, Newman E, Hamshere MG, Brook JD (1999). “Myotonic dystrophy is associated with a reduced level of RNA from the DMWD allele adjacent to the expanded repeat”. Hum. Mol. Genet. 8 (8): 1491β7. doi:10.1093/hmg/8.8.1491. PMIDΒ 10400997.
- Eriksson M, Hedberg B, Carey N, Ansved T (2001). “Decreased DMPK transcript levels in myotonic dystrophy 1 type IIA muscle fibers”. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 286 (5): 1177β82. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2001.5516. PMIDΒ 11527424.
- Frisch R, Singleton KR, Moses PA, et al. (2001). “Effect of triplet repeat expansion on chromatin structure and expression of DMPK and neighboring genes, SIX5 and DMWD, in myotonic dystrophy”. Mol. Genet. Metab. 74 (1β2): 281β91. doi:10.1006/mgme.2001.3229. PMIDΒ 11592825.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). “Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899β903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMCΒ 139241. PMIDΒ 12477932.
- Grimwood J, Gordon LA, Olsen A, et al. (2004). “The DNA sequence and biology of human chromosome 19”. Nature. 428 (6982): 529β35. doi:10.1038/nature02399. PMIDΒ 15057824.
- Beausoleil SA, Jedrychowski M, Schwartz D, et al. (2004). “Large-scale characterization of HeLa cell nuclear phosphoproteins”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (33): 12130β5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404720101. PMCΒ 514446. PMIDΒ 15302935.
