The haemochromatosis candidate gene HFE (HLA-H) of man and mouse is located in syntenic regions within the histone gene cluster

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-126

  Albig, Werner ^a   Drabent, Birgit ^a   Burmester, Nicole ^a   Bode, Christa ^a   Doenecke, Detlef ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Inst F Biochem Molec Z   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmid contig; Haemochromatosis gene; Histone gene cluster; Sequences; Species comparison; YACs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMID; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HISTONES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RATS;

EID: 0032080222     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(19980501)69:2<117::AID-JCB3>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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