A tetranucleotide polymorphic microsatellite, located in the first intron of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene, acts as a transcription regulatory element in vitro

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 423-428

  Meloni, Rolando ^a   Albanèse, Véronique ^a   Ravassard, Philippe ^a   Treilhou, Fabienne ^a   Mallet, Jacques ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; THYMIDINE KINASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LUCIFERASES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PC12 CELLS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0031886282     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.3.423     Document Type: Article

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