New gene family defined by MORC, a nuclear protein required for mouse spermatogenesis

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1201-1207

  Inoue, Norimitsu ^a   Hess, Karl D ^a,c   Moreadith, Randall W ^a,d   Richardson, Laura L ^b   Handel, Mary Ann ^b   Watson, Mark L ^a   Zinn, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d ThromboGene Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOULD; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0032776555     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.7.1201     Document Type: Article

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