Structural and functional characterization of the mouse Sox9 promoter: Implications for campomelic dysplasia

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 691-696

  Kanai, Yoshiakira ^a,b   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAMPTOMELIC DYSPLASIA; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SOMATIC CELL; START CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033035248     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.4.691     Document Type: Article

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