The complete sequences of the galago and rabbit β-globin locus control regions: Extended sequence and functional conservation outside the cores of DNase hypersensitive sites

Genomics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-94

  Slightom, Jerry L ^a   Bock, Jeffrey H ^a   Tagle, Danilo A ^b,e   Gumucio, Deborah L ^c   Goodman, Morris ^b   Stojanovic, Nikola ^d   Jackson, John ^d   Miller, Webb ^d   Hardison, Ross ^d  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GLOBIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031034307     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.4458     Document Type: Article

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