The functional intronless S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase gene of the mouse (Amd-2) is linked to the ornithine decarboxylase gene (Odc) on Chromosome 12 and is present in distantly related species of the genus Mus

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 784-788

  Persson, Kent ^a   Heby, Olle ^a   Berger, Franklin G ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLY(DEOXYADENYLATE DEOXYTHYMIDYLATE); POLYAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA; EVOLUTION; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032792119     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359901092     Document Type: Article

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