Polymorphism of a CAG trinucleotide repeat within Sry correlates with B6.YDom sex reversal

Nature Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 245-250

  Coward, Peter ^a   Nagai, Kozo ^a,c   Chen, Degao ^a   Thomas, Harrison D ^b   Nagamine, Claude M ^b   Lau, Yun Fai Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; Y CHROMOSOME;

MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUSCULUS;

EID: 0028289482     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0394-245     Document Type: Article

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