Aphakia (ak), a mouse mutation affecting early eye development: Fine mapping, consideration of candidate genes and altered Pax6 and Six3 gene expression pattern

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 299-316

  Grimm, Christina ^a   Chatterjee, Bimal ^a   Favor, Jack ^a   Immervoll, Thomas ^a   Löster, Jana ^a   Klopp, Norman ^a   Sandulache, Rodica ^a   Graw, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

crystallin; Eye development; Linkage analysis; Mouse mutant; Pax2; Pax6; Six3

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MARKER GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0032447632     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)23:4<299::AID-DVG5>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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