Organization of a human UDP-GalNAc:Polypeptide, N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase gene and a related processed pseudogene

Glycobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-241

  Meurer, Janet A ^a   Drong, Roger F ^a   Homa, Fred L ^a   Slightom, Jerry L ^a   Elhammer, Åke P ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome localization; Genomic organization; Polypeptide:N acetylgalactosaminyltransferase; Pseudogene

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0029874003     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/6.2.231     Document Type: Article

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