Isolation of a new homeobox gene belonging to the Pitx/Rieg family: Expression during lens development and mapping to the aphakia region on mouse chromosome 19

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2109-2116

  Semina, Elena V ^a   Reiter, Rebecca S ^b   Murray, Jeffrey C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APHAKIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRONS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030669179     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.12.2109     Document Type: Article

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