Cloning of Tabby, the murine homolog of the human EDA gene: Evidence for a membrane-associated protein with a short collagenous domain

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1589-1594

  Ferguson, Betsy M ^a   Brockdorff, Neil ^b   Formstone, Emma ^b   Ngyuen, Tung ^a   Kronmiller, Jan E ^a   Zonana, Jonathan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HYPOHIDROTIC ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ECTODYSPLASINS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0030833393     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.9.1589     Document Type: Article

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