A gene essential to brain growth and development maps to the distal arm of rat chromosome 12

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-8

  Cogswell, C A ^a   Sarkisian, M R ^a   Leung, V ^a   Patel, R ^a   D'Mello, S R ^a   Loturco, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Chromosome 12; Epilepsy; Genetic; Microcephaly; Mutation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; CHROMOSOME 12Q; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC MARKERS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0032540992     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00478-9     Document Type: Article

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