Structure and chromosome mapping of the human small mafgenes MAFG and MAFK

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 88-90

  Iwata, T ^a   Kogame, K ^b   Toki, T ^a   Yokoyama, M ^a   Yamamoto, M ^c   Ito, E ^a,b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 7P; CHROMOSOME MAP; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VERTEBRATE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; DNA PROBES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; MAFG TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MAFK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031659239     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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