The Sry-related gene Sox9 is expressed during chondrogenesis in mouse embryos

Nature Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 15-20

  Wright, Edwina ^a   Hargrave, Murray R ^a   Christiansen, Jeffrey ^a   Cooper, Leanne ^a   Kun, Jutta ^a   Evans, Timothy ^a   Gangadharan, Uma ^b   Greenfield, Andy ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHONDROGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 17; DYSPLASIA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE DISEASES, DEVELOPMENTAL; CARTILAGE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0028830855     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0195-15     Document Type: Article

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