Imprinted expression of the Igf2r gene depends on an intronic CpG island

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6652, 1997, Pages 745-749

  Wutz, Anton ^a   Smrzka, Oskar W ^b   Schweifer, Norbert ^c   Schellander, Karl ^d   Wagner, Erwin F ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; INTRON; MALE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 2;

EID: 0030694713     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39631     Document Type: Article

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