EYA4, a novel vertebrate gene related to Drosophila eyes absent

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-23

  Borsani, Giuseppe ^a   DeGrandi, Alessandro ^a   Ballabio, Andrea ^a,b   Bulfone, Alessandro ^a   Bernard, Loris ^a   Banfi, Sandro ^a   Gattuso, Claudio ^a   Mariani, Margherita ^c   Dixon, Michael ^d   Donnai, Dian ^e   Metcalfe, Kay ^e   Winter, Robin ^f   Robertson, Marie ^g   Axton, Richard ^g   Brown, Alison ^g   Van Heyningen, Veronica ^g   Hanson, Isabel ^g  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c St Mary's Hospital ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 10; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

DROSOPHILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032905164     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.1.11     Document Type: Article

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