The mouse C1q genes are clustered on chromosome 4 and show conservation of gene organization

Immunogenetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 370-376

  Petry, Franz ^a   McClive, Peter J ^b   Botto, Marina ^c   Morley, Bernard J ^c   Morahan, Grant ^b   Loos, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA PROBE; EXON; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; INBRED STRAIN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPLEMENT C1Q; GENES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0029933351     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050077     Document Type: Article

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