Molecular basis of the pleiotropic phenotype of mice carrying the hypervariable yellow (Ahvy) mutation at the agouti locus

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 557-567

  Argeson, Alysia C ^a   Nelson, Kelly K ^a   Siracusa, Linda D ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MELANIN; PIGMENT; RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MELANOCYTE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLE; HAIR COLOR; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030048204     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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