Experimental Hematology
Volume 36, Issue 9 , Pages 1132-1142 , September 2008

montalcino, A zebrafish model for variegate porphyria

  • Kimberly A. Dooley

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
    • Current address: Broad Institute/MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
    • Corresponding Author InformationOffprint requests to: Leonard I. Zon, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Paula G. Fraenkel

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
    • Current address: Division of Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
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  • Nathaniel B. Langer

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Bettina Schmid

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Alan J. Davidson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
    • Current address: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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  • Gerhard Weber

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Ken Chiang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Helen Foott

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Caitlin Dwyer

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Rebecca A. Wingert

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
    • Current address: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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  • Yi Zhou

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Barry H. Paw

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Leonard I. Zon

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium

      Affiliations

    • Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium: F. Bebber van, E. Busch-Nentwich, R. Dahm, H. G. Frohnhöfer, H. Geiger, D. Gilmour, S. Holley, J. Hooge, D. Jülich, H. Knaut, F. Maderspacher, C. Neumann, T. Nicolson, C. Nüsslein-Volhard, H. Roehl, U. Schönberger, C. Seiler, C. Söllner, M. Sonawane, A. Wehner, C. Weiler and B. Schmid at the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Spemannstrasse 35, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. U. Hagner, E. Hennen, C. Kaps, A. Kirchner, T. I. Koblizek, U. Langheinrich, C. Metzger, R. Nordin, M. Pezzuti, K. Schlombs, J. deSantana-Stamm, T. Trowe, G. Vacun, A. Walker, and C. Weiler at Artemis Pharmaceuticals/Exelixis Deutchland GmbH, Neurather Ring 1, S51063 Köln, Germany.

Received 7 November 2007 ,Revised 27 February 2008 ,Accepted 15 April 2008.

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PII: S0301-472X(08)00179-3

doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2008.04.008

Experimental Hematology
Volume 36, Issue 9 , Pages 1132-1142 , September 2008

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