Two novel human RAB genes with near identical sequence each map to a telomere-associated region: The subtelomeric region of 22q13.3 and the ancestral telomere band 2q13

Genomics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 326-334

  Wong, Andrew C C ^a   Shkolny, Dana ^a   Dorman, Angela ^b   Willingham, Diana ^b   Roe, Bruce A ^b   McDermid, Heather E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033180514     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5889     Document Type: Article

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