Recessive spotting: A linked locus that interacts with W/Kit but is not allelic

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 235-244

  Bennett, Dorothy C ^a   Trayner, Ian D ^a,d   Piao, Xianhua ^b   Easty, David J ^a   Klüppel, Michael ^b   Alexander, Warren S ^c   Wagner, Erwin F ^c   Bernstein, Alan ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, RECESSIVE; HAIR COLOR; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MAST CELLS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTORS, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031903035     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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