Closely spaced tandem arrangement of AQP2, AQP5, and AQP6 genes in a 27- kilobase segment at chromosome locus 12q13

Genomics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 387-389

  Ma, Tonghui ^b   Yang, Baoxue ^b   Umenishi, Fuminori ^b   Verkman, A S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031214773     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4836     Document Type: Article

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