An imprinted mouse transcript homglogous to the human imprinted in Prader-Willi syndrome (IPW) gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 325-332

  Wevrick, Rachel ^a,b   Francke, Uta ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 7; FATHER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; MURINAE; MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031040496     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.2.325     Document Type: Article

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