Exon-intron organization of the human type 2 desmocollin gene (DSC2): Desmocollin gene structure is closer to 'classical' cadherins than to desmogleins

Genomics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 330-335

  Greenwood, Matthew D ^a   Marsden, Mark D ^a,b   Cowley, Catherine M E ^a   Sahota, Virender K ^a   Buxton, Roger S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; DESMOCOLLIN; DESMOGLEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CHROMOSOME 18Q; DESMOSOME; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031572295     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4894     Document Type: Article

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