Paternal expression of WT1 in human fibroblasts and lymphocytes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2243-2246

  Mitsuya, Kohzoh ^a   Sui, Hajime ^a   Meguro, Makiko ^a   Kugoh, Hiroyuki ^a   Jinno, Yoshihiro ^b   Niikawa, Norio ^b   Oshimura, Mitsuo ^a,c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEWBORN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0030779232     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.13.2243     Document Type: Article

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