Characterization and comparison of the human and mouse dist1l α-globin complex reveals a tightly packed multiple gene cluster containing differentially expressed transcription units

Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 341-351

  Kielman, Menno F ^a   Smits, Ron ^a   Hof, Ingrid ^a   Bernini, Luigi F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029926012     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0128     Document Type: Article

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