A high-resolution linkage map of the tight skin 2 (Tsk2) locus: A mouse model for scleroderma (SSc) and other cutaneous fibrotic diseases

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 610-612

  Christner, P J ^a   Siracusa, L D ^b   Hawkins, D F ^a   McGrath, R ^a   Betz, J K ^a   Ball, S T ^c   Jimenez, S A ^a,d   Peters, J ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLERODERMA;

SATELLITE DNA; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, SATELLITE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0030211144     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900181     Document Type: Article

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