Conservation of Position and Sequence of a Novel, Widely Expressed Gene Containing the Major Human α-Globin Regulatory Element

Genomics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 679-689

  Vyas, Paresh ^a   Vickers, Mark A ^a   Picketts, David J ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GLOBIN GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLOBINS; HUMAN; INTRONS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TATA BOX; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028793262     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1995.9951     Document Type: Article

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