Molecular cloning, chromosomal mapping, and characterization of the mouse UDP-galactose:ceramide galactosyltransferase gene

Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 215-222

  Coetzee, Timothy ^a   Li, Xu ^c   Fujita, Nobuya ^a,d   Marcus, Jill ^a,b   Suzuki, Kunihiko ^a,b   Francke, Uta ^c   Popko, Brian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; MYELIN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIPOGENESIS; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030200940     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0341     Document Type: Article

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