The evolutionary distribution and structural organization of the homeobox-containing repeat D4Z4 indicates a functional role for the ancestral copy in the FSHD region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1567-1575

  Winokur, Sara T ^a   Bengtsson, Ulla ^a   Vargas, Julie C ^a   Wasmuth, John J ^a   Altherr, Michael R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0029798271     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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