Genomic analysis of a new mammalian distal-less gene: Dlx7

Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 314-324

  Nakamura, Shuji ^a,i   Stock, David W ^b   Wydner, Karen L ^c   Bollekens, Jacques A ^d   Takeshita, Kenichi ^e   Nagai, Brian M ^f   Chiba, Shigeru ^g   Kitamura, Toshio ^h   Freeland, Thomas M ^b   Zhao, Zhiyong ^b   Minowada, Jun ⁱ   Lawrence, Jeanne B ^c   Weiss, Kenneth M ^b   Ruddle, Frank H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

ⁱ HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030589630     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0634     Document Type: Article

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