Mice with gene targetted prion protein alterations show that PRNP, Sinc and Prni are congruent

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 118-125

  Moore, Richard C ^a,c   Hope, James ^b   McBride, Patricia A ^b   McConnell, Irene ^b   Selfridge, James ^a   Melton, David W ^a   Manson, Jean C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; GENE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CODON; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031942579     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0298-118     Document Type: Article

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