Mouse Dax1 expression is consistent with a role in sex determination as well as in adrenal and hypothalamus function

Nature Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 404-409

  Swain, Amanda ^a   Zanaria, Elena ^b   Hacker, Adam ^a   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a   Camerino, Giovanna ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME XP; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029912474     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0496-404     Document Type: Article

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