Analysis of exon/intron structure and 400 kb of genomic sequence surrounding the 5'-promoter and 3'-terminal ends of the human glypican 3 (GPC3) gene

Genomics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 48-58

  Huber, Reid ^a   Crisponi, Laura ^a,b   Mazzarella, Richard ^a   Chen, Chun Nan ^c   Su, Ying ^c   Shizuya, Hiroaki ^d   Chen, Ellson Y ^c   Cao, Antonio ^b   Pilia, Giuseppe ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYPICAN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GIGANTISM; HUMAN; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031260397     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4916     Document Type: Article

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