The chicken FMR1 gene is highly conserved with a CCT 5′-untranslated repeat and encodes an RNA-binding protein

Genomics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-12

  Price, Douglas K ^a,b   Zhang, Fuping ^b   Ashley Jr , Claude T ^b   Warren, Stephen T ^b  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030023275     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0002     Document Type: Article

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