Mosaic and polymorphic imprinting of the WT1 gene in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 305-309

  Jinno, Yoshihiro ^a   Yun, Kankatsu ^b   Nishiwaki, Kunihiko ^a,c   Kubota, Takeo ^a   Ogawa, Osamu ^d   Reeve, Anthony E ^d   Niikawa, Norio ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOSAICISM; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; PLACENTA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0028342915     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0394-305     Document Type: Article

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