A tandem duplication within the fibrillin 1 gene is associated with the mouse Tight skin mutation

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 300-313

  Siracusa, Linda D ^a   McGrath, Rodney ^b   Ma, Qing ^a   Moskow, John J ^a   Manne, Jayanthi ^a   Christner, Paul J ^b   Buchberg, Arthur M ^a   Jimenez, Sergio A ^b  

^a Jefferson Cancer Center   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0029941445     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.4.300     Document Type: Article

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