Cloning of a human homolog of the Drosophila enhancer of zeste gene (EZH2) that maps to chromosome 21q22.2

Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-37

  Chen, Haiming ^a   Rossier, Colette ^b   Antonarakis, Stylianos E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c Centre Médical Universitaire   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CHROMOSOME MAP; DOWN SYNDROME; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030588658     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0588     Document Type: Article

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