Evidence for uniparental, paternal expression of the human GABA(A) receptor subunit genes, using microcell-mediated chromosome transfer

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2127-2133

  Meguro, Makiko ^a   Mitsuya, Kohzoh ^a   Sui, Hajime ^a   Shigenami, Katsuyo ^a   Kugoh, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakao, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Oshimura, Mitsuo ^a,c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID CELL; NONHUMAN; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; LIGASES; MALE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030687684     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.12.2127     Document Type: Article

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