Multiple functional copies of the RBM gene family, a spermatogenesis candidate on the human Y chromosome

Genomics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 355-361

  Chai, Ning Ning ^a   Salido, Eduardo C ^b   Yen, Pauline H ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME YQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0030726761     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4944     Document Type: Article

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