Establishment of functional imprinting of the H19 gene in human developing placentae

Nature Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 318-324

  Jinno, Yoshihiro ^a   Ikeda, Yuichiro ^a   Yun, Kankatsu ^b   Maw, Marion ^c   Masuzaki, Hideaki ^a   Fukuda, Hisanobu ^a   Inuzuka, Kunihiko ^a   Fujishita, Akira ^a   Ohtani, Yoshinobu ^d   Okimoto, Tomoaki ^a   Ishimaru, Tadayuki ^a   Niikawa, Norio ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029043178     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0795-318     Document Type: Article

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