Influence of PAX6 gene dosage on development: Overexpression causes severe eye abnormalities

Cell

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-82

  Schedl, Andreas ^a   Ross, Allyson ^a   Lee, Muriel ^a   Engelkamp, Dieter ^a   Rashbass, Penny ^a   Van Heyningen, Veronica ^a   Hastie, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE MALFORMATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030581164     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80078-1     Document Type: Article

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