The human GARS-AIRS-GART gene encodes two proteins which are differentially expressed during human brain development and temporally overexpressed in cerebellum of individuals with Down syndrome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2043-2050

  Brodsky, Gary ^a   Barnes, Tristan ^a   Bleskan, John ^a   Becker, Laurence ^b   Cox, Marlin ^a   Patterson, David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHOSPHORIBOSYLAMINE GLYCINE LIGASE; PHOSPHORIBOSYLGLYCINAMIDE FORMYLTRANSFERASE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 21; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES WITH GLUTAMINE AS AMIDE-N-DONOR; CEREBELLUM; CHO CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYL AND FORMYL TRANSFERASES; INTRONS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHOSPHORIBOSYLGLYCINAMIDE FORMYLTRANSFERASE; POLY A; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PURINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; LEPISOSTEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030668788     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.12.2043     Document Type: Article

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