cDNA cloning of a human homologue of the Caenorhabditis elegans cell fate-determining gene mab-21: Expression, chromosomal localization and analysis of a highly polymorphic (CAG)n trinucleotide repeat

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 607-616

  Margolis, Russell L ^a   Stine, O Colin ^a   McInnis, Melvin G ^a   Ranen, Neal G ^a   Rubinsztein, David C ^b   Leggo, Jayne ^b   Jones Brando, Lorraine V ^a   Kidwai, Arif S ^a   Loev, Scott J ^a   Breschel, Theresa S ^a   Callahan, Colleen ^a   Simpson, Sylvia G ^a   DePaulo, J Raymond ^a   McMahon, Francis J ^a   Jain, Sanjeev ^c   Paykel, Eugene S ^c   Walsh, Cathy ^c   DeLisi, Lynn E ^d   Crow, Timothy J ^e   Torrey, E Fuller ^f   Ashworth, Roxann G ^a   Macke, Jennifer P ^a   Nathans, Jeremy ^a   Ross, Christopher A ^a   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN DISEASES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0029878412     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.5.607     Document Type: Article

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