Base substitution at different alternative splice donor sites of the tyrosinase gene in murine albinism

Genomics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 245-248

  Le Fur, Nathalie ^a   Kelsall, Stephen R ^a   Mintz, Beatrice ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; LEUCINE; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; SERINE;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030588070     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0551     Document Type: Article

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