The human MAGEL2 gene and its mouse homologue are paternally expressed and mapped to the Prader-Willi region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2497-2505

  Boccaccio, Irène ^b   Glatt Deeley, Heather ^a   Watrin, Françoise ^b   Roëckel, Nathalie ^b   Lalande, Marc ^a   Muscatelli, Françoise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CPG ISLAND; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATERNITY; PLACENTA; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032714383     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.13.2497     Document Type: Article

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