T-box genes: What they do and how they do it

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 154-158

  Smith, Jim ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOUNDER EFFECT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FETAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033119649     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01693-5     Document Type: Review

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