Mouse autosomal homolog of DAZ, a candidate male sterility gene in humans, is expressed in male germ cells before and after puberty

Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 346-352

  Reijo, Renee ^a   Seligman, Judith ^a   Dinulos, Mary Beth ^b   Jaffe, Tom ^a   Brown, Laura G ^a   Disteche, Christine M ^b   Page, David C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030586249     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0366     Document Type: Article

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