Alissa Collingridge, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

NANS-mediated synthesis of sialic acid is required for brain and skeletal development.
Nature genetics · 2016

1 publications.

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NANS-mediated synthesis of sialic acid is required for brain and skeletal development.

van Karnebeek CD, Bonafé L, Wen XY, Tarailo-Graovac M, Balzano S, Royer-Bertrand B, Ashikov A, Garavelli L, Mammi I, Turolla L, Breen C, Donnai D, Cormier-Daire V, Heron D, Nishimura G, Uchikawa S, Campos-Xavier B, Rossi A, Hennet T, Brand-Arzamendi K, Rozmus J, Harshman K, Stevenson BJ, Girardi E, Superti-Furga G, Dewan T, Collingridge A, Halparin J, Ross CJ, Van Allen MI, Rossi A, Engelke UF, Kluijtmans LA, van der Heeft E, Renkema H, de Brouwer A, Huijben K, Zijlstra F, Heise T, Boltje T, Wasserman WW, Rivolta C, Unger S, Lefeber DJ, Wevers RA, Superti-Furga A

Nature genetics2016

DOI: 10.1038/ng.3578 PMID: 27213289

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Xiao-Yan Wen

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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