Identification of Sonic hedgehog as a candidate gene responsible for the polydactylous mouse mutant Sasquatch

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-100

  Sharpe, James ^a   Lettice, Laura ^b   Hecksher Sørensen, Jacob ^b   Margaret, Fox ^c   Hill, Robert ^b   Krumlauf, Robb ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033611494     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80022-0     Document Type: Article

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