Effects of altered gene order or orientation of the locus control region on human β-globin gene expression in mice

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6725, 1999, Pages 344-348

  Tanimoto, Keiji ^a   Liu, Qinghui ^a   Bungert, Jörg ^a,b   Engel, James Douglas ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN K 562; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE ORDER; GLOBIN GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLOBINS; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033602445     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18698     Document Type: Article

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