A novel unstable mouse VNTR family expanded from SINE B1 elements

Genomics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-128

  Bois, Philippe ^a   Williamson, Jill ^c   Brown, Julia ^a   Dubrova, Yuri E ^a,b   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0032054841     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5228     Document Type: Article

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