DNA sequence analysis of Sry alleles (subgenus Mus) implicates misregulation as the cause of C57BL/6J-Y(POS) sex reversal and defines the SRY functional unit

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1267-1277

  Albrecht, Kenneth H ^a   Eicher, Eva M ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; GLUTAMINE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE CONTROL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPECIES; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS SPICILEGUS; MUS SPRETUS; MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030664450     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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