Genomic Structure of the Human DNA Methyltransferase Gene

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 379, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 535-630

  Ramchandani, Shyam ^a   Bigey, Pascal ^a   Szyf, Moshe ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031966354     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.4-5.535     Document Type: Article

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