Isolation, characterization, and mapping of a zinc finger gene, ZFP95, containing both a SCAN box and an alternatively spliced KRAB A domain

Genomics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-122

  Dreyer, Sandra D ^a,b   Zheng, Qiping ^b   Zabel, Bernhard ^a   Winterpacht, Andreas ^a   Lee, Brendan ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA LIBRARY; FETUS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

MURINAE;

EID: 0032715654     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5981     Document Type: Article

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