Mutant cohesin in premature ovarian failure

Sandrine Caburet1, Valerie A Arboleda1, Elena Llano1

  • 1Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot (S.C., M.F., R.A.V.), and Institut Cochin, Université Paris Descartes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8104, INSERM (D.V., M.F.) - both in Paris; the Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (V.A.A., E.V.); Departamento de Fisiología y Farmacología, Universidad de Salamanca (E.L.), and Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer (E.L., I.G.-T., A.M.P.) - both in Salaman ca, Spain; the Department of Molecular Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (P.A.O., K.O., W.H.); Centro de In vestigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid (J.L.B.); and the Department of Genetics, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem (Z.B.-N.).

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