Cloning of cDNA encoding human rapsyn and mapping of the RAPSN gene locus to chromosome 11p11.2-p11.1

Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 613-616

  Buckel, Alex ^a   Beeson, David ^a   James, Michael ^b   Vincent, Angela ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11P; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030219829     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0409     Document Type: Article

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