Stable and inheritable changes in genotype and phenotype of albino melanocytes induced by an RNA-DNA oligonucleotide

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1343-1346

  Alexeev, Vitali ^a   Yoon, Kyonggeun ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeroplasty; Clonal analysis; Gene repair; Gene targeting; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ALBINISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; MELANOCYTE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA; GENOTYPE; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POINT MUTATION; RNA;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031734471     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4322     Document Type: Article

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