Ataxia-telangiectasia locus: Sequence analysis of 184 kb of human genomic DNA containing the entire ATM gene

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 592-605

  Platzer, Matthias ^a   Rotman, Galit ^b   Bauer, David ^a   Uziel, Tamar ^b   Savitsky, Kinneret ^b   Bar Shir, Anat ^b   Gilad, Shlomit ^b   Shiloh, Yosef ^b   Rosenthal, André ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ALGORITHM; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CODON USAGE; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030816212     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.6.592     Document Type: Article

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