Mechanisms of developmental control transcription in the murine α and β-globin loci

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 112-124

  Trimborn, Tolleiv ^a   Gribnau, Joost ^a   Grosveld, Frank ^a   Fraser, Peter ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gene competition; Globin genes; In vivo; Locus control region; Mechanism of transcriptional control; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; BETA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MURINAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032943583     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.1.112     Document Type: Article

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