Human Aromatase: CDNA Cloning, Southern Blot Analysis, and Assignment of the Gene to Chromosome 15

DNA

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 27-38

  Chen, Shiuan ^a   Besman, Marc J ^a   Shively, John E ^a   Sparkes, Robert S ^b   Zollman, Susan ^b   Klisak, Ivana ^b   Mohandas, T ^c   Hall, Peter F ^d  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; RADIOISOTOPE;

CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023846054     PISSN: 01980238     EISSN: 15577430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.1988.7.27     Document Type: Article

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