Identification of a transcriptional enhancer within muscle intron 1 of the human dystrophin gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1599-1606

  Klamut, Henry J ^a,b   Bosnoyan Collins, Lucine O ^a,c   Worton, Ronald G ^a,c,f   Ray, Peter N ^a,c   Davis, Heather L ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEART DILATATION; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REPORTER GENE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029824347     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.10.1599     Document Type: Article

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