Spontaneous mutations in SELH/Bc mice due to insertions of early transposons: Molecular characterization of null alleles at the nude and albino loci

Genomics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-109

  Hofmann, Michael ^a   Harris, Muriel ^b   Juriloff, Diana ^b   Boehm, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0032528839     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5409     Document Type: Article

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