Isolation of a full-length human WNT7A gene implicated in limb development and cell transformation, and mapping to chromosome 3p25

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-29

  Bui, Thuan D ^a   Lako, Majlinda ^b   Lejeune, Sue ^a   Curtis, Andrew R J ^b   Strachan, Tom ^b   Lindsay, Susan ^b   Harris, Adrian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cloning; Endometrium

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME 3P; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030994848     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00808-6     Document Type: Article

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