Structure and function correlations at the imprinted mouse Snrpn locus

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 788-793

  Gabriel, James M ^a   Gray, Todd A ^a   Stubbs, Lisa ^b   Saitoh, Shihji ^a,c   Ohta, Tohru ^a   Nicholls, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PROMOTER REGION;

ANGELMAN SYNDROME; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR;

EID: 0031714455     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900868     Document Type: Article

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