Structure of the Human Lactoferrin Gene and Its Chromosomal Localization

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 663-668

  Kim, Sun Jung ^a   Yu, Dae Yeul ^a   Pak, Kyung Won ^a   Jeong, Sangkyun ^a   Kim, Sung Wan ^b   Lee, Kyung Kwang ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cosmid Vector; Human Lactoferrin Gene; In situ Hybridization; Transferrin Family

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; LACTOFERRIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0032585353     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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