Dense Alu clustering and a potential new member of the NFκB family within a 90 kilobase HLA Class III segment

Nature Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 137-145

  Iris, François J M ^a   Bougueleret, Lydie ^a   Prieur, Sylvie ^a   Caterina, Dominique ^a   Primas, Gwenaél ^a   Perrot, Virginie ^a   Jurka, Jerzy ^b   Rodriguez Tome, Patricia ^a   Claverie, Jean Michel ^c   Dausset, Jean ^a   Cohen, Daniel ^a  

^a FONDATION JEAN DAUSSET CEPH   (France)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSEUDOGENE; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NF-KAPPA B; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0027403759     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0293-137     Document Type: Article

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