Sry interactive proteins: Implication for the mechanisms of sex determination

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 80, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 128-132

  Lau, Y F Chris ^a,b   Zhang, J ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031871111     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000014968     Document Type: Review

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