A SPGY copy homologous to the mouse gene Dazla and the Drosophila gene boule is autosomal and expressed only in the human male gonad

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2005-2011

  Shan, Zhihong ^a   Hirschmann, Peter ^a   Seebacher, Thomas ^a   Edelmann, Angela ^a   Jauch, Anna ^a   Morell, Jane ^b   Urbitsch, Peter ^a   Vogt, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME 3; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029803595     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.12.2005     Document Type: Article

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