Isolation and characterisation of the NBR2 gene which lies head to head with the human BRCA1 gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1057-1062

  Xu, Chun Fang ^a,b   Brown, Melissa A ^a,b   Nicolai, Hans ^a,b   Chambers, Julie A ^a,b   Griffiths, Beatrice L ^a,b   Solomon, Ellen ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PRIMATES; PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0030799598     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.7.1057     Document Type: Article

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