Organization, expression and polymorphism of the human persyn gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1417-1424

  Ninkina, Natalia N ^a,b   Alimova Kost, Maria V ^c   Paterson, James W E ^a   Delaney, Liz ^a   Cohen, Brian B ^a   Imreh, Stefan ^c   Gnuchev, Nikolai V ^b   Davies, Alun M ^a,d   Buchman, Vladimir L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Neuropa Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SYNUCLEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CHROMOSOME 10Q; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031715527     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.9.1417     Document Type: Article

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