Mapping of a major genetic modifier of embryonic lethality in TGFβ1 knockout mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-211

  Bonyadi, Mortaza ^a   Rusholme, Sarah A B ^a,d   Cousins, Frances M ^a   Su, Helen C ^b   Biron, Christine A ^b   Farrall, Martin ^c   Akhurst, Rosemary J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ONYX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5; CODOMINANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; GENE MAPPING; LETHAL GENE; MAJOR GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL DEATH; GENES, LETHAL; HEMATOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0031039041     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-207     Document Type: Article

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